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CASE Construction Equipment needed a touchscreen kiosk to market their products at the 2014 ConExpo show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and they needed it in 56 working days. The kiosk had to serve many functions, including badge-scanning capabilities to populate a database of prospects. Additionally, the client required the program functionality to qualify leads and to direct potential customers to the specific products most relevant to their business interests. While refined functionality was imperative, the kiosk also had to be readily adaptable to additional trade shows throughout the year.
Alteris Group developed a touchscreen solution that provided a unique prospect engagement process. The framework takes the user through a series of pre-qualifying questions, directing them to the equipment solution that’s best suited to their needs. In addition, the program allowed the prospect to view and capture product information, while the database provided the client with a detailed list of the prospect’s user data for dealers to generate leads and populate the sales pipeline. The kiosk was also built for use-case adaptability, allowing it to be conveniently updated with relevant content. The inaugural trade show run at ConExpo collected over 700 qualified leads. The program is now implemented for shows in 2015.
If your vision is to design, build and sell the world’s best vehicles, it’s easy to understand that some extraordinary efforts are going to be required to make that vision a reality. For General Motors, it involved establishing a culture where everyone focuses on this key value.
Our decision-making starts and ends with our customers.
In the GM product development and engineering community, the challenge was to find a way to immerse employees in retail operations and to create first-hand opportunities for them to listen to the voice of the customer. The question was: how?
Working in concert with GM’s Center of Learning, regional offices and representatives from vehicle and powertrain engineering, the Alteris Group team designed and executed a multi-week experiential curriculum called the Dealership Professional Development Assignment (PDA). Engineers participate in several days of classroom training and travel logistics planning before diving into field assignments that include job shadowing GM District Managers, visiting GM and competitive dealerships and riding along with Field Service Engineers. Over the past two years, the corporation has conducted six waves of PDA training. Each wave accommodates 30 engineers and 40 Global Product Development senior leaders. The group is split into teams that travel to a different region each of the weeks they are in the field. Team members aggregate individual findings to create insight reports. Then they present their key insights to executive sponsors. Finally, engineers, managers and senior leaders implement selected actions. Over a two-year period, the PDA program has documented over 4,000 insights around design, serviceability, durability/reliability and more.
Participants have been outspoken in their feedback:
Three metal-forming companies—Metaldyne, Grede and HHI—merged to become a multibillion-dollar global leader, Metaldyne Performance Group. The merger enabled the three automotive suppliers to strengthen their market position across the metal forming industry sector, expand their global footprints and leverage cross-selling opportunities and operational synergies. The merger also provided the opportunity to launch an IPO.
Alteris Group was called on to provide its expertise in helping MPG to achieve its business objectives as well as to communicate the value of the new entity to customers and both institutional and individual investors. We provided the following key services and capabilities for a brand-new responsive design website, mpgdriven.com: creative development, copywriting, design, layout and programming.
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eCommerce: It's the reason for the season
Eric Bohlman says:
Parental anxiety may contribute to this. One of the effects of the mass media has been to make the world *scary* out of all proportion to the actual level of *danger*.
That is so true that I just wanted to quote it so it would have been said twice on the list. It applies to SO many things. Parenting, government, targets for defence, choice of conveyance, diet, and on and on.
There is another side to it as well: The REAL dangers tend to be ignored. Automotive accidents, depression/suicide and fear of persicution due to sexual preference issues among teens, loss of freedoms in the name of national security, disease caused by the unbelievable methods used to lower the cost of food production, and on and on.
The saddist thing about the human species is the disconnection between the emotional / re-active sections of the brain and the tiny part that handles raw statistics, math and reason. RAH once said that humans who can't do at least calculas are at best animals. I've always like the quote about the lottery being a tax on people who are bad at math.
"How we know what isn't" A good book on critical thinking
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333 Main Street, Philadelphia
Date: 06th February 2014
Subject : Reference Letter for my student Ms. Jessica Holmes
Dear Mr. Parker,
It gives me enough pleasure to refer my student Ms. Jessica Holmes, whom I have known for the last three years, while she was learning under my guidance as a MDP scholar at the university. As I hold her in high esteem, I am writing this letter of reference at her request, as she is applying for the position of “management Trainee” at your organization.
I understand the job is meant for a candidate who holds strong leadership calibre and Ms. Holmes fits the description. As her Guidance Councillor I have seen her undertake responsibilities for organizing two leadership development programs and multiple awareness campaigns. Moreover, she has strong observation abilities, and as the President of the student committee, has been able to identify the inherent talents of many students and also as a member of the student committee, had the opportunity to review entrepreneurial plans of fellow students. It is not often that I have come across someone, who is so motivated, result oriented and organized in her professional calls.
The combination of her daunting spirit, personality and professionalism makes Ms. Holmes an ideal candidate for your organizations’ position. If you select her, I am sure it will take you little time to fathom why I am so enthusiastic about her as a person and a leader.
My best wishes to Jessica!
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE
PEED TROTTER AND ARTHUR SWANSON, OP PORT DODGE/IOWA, ASSIGNORS TO UNITED
STATES GYPSUM COMPANY, OP CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OP ILLINOIS
METHOD OP AND APPARATUS POR SCORING BLOCKS
Application filed April 21, 1927, Serial No. 185,471. Renewed January 26, 1929.
This invention relates to a machine for scoring blocks or tile for building construction.
In applying plaster over a building block 5 it is necessary to provide some sort of a surface with which the plaster can form a mechanical key, and thus bond to the block. It is the object of this invention to provide a machine to mechanically score building
10 blocks in the process of manufacture to provide a surface with which the plaster can bond by means of a mechanical key.
In the drawing Fig. 1 is an elevation with parts broken away showing the general layis out of the machine. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectfully side and end elevations in more detail of the actual scoring device, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a block scored by this machine.
20 The machine consists essentially of a suitable frame, an endless belt and driving mechanism therefor, and a scoring device. The endless carrier consists of shoes 4 and separators 3 suitably mounted and driven by
25 drivewheels 2 suitably mounted on the frame 1. The blocks 5 are carried on the shoes of the endless carrier and held apart by the separators 3, and are automatically discharged at the end of the machine.
so The scoring device consists of a blade 10 secured by eccentrics 9 which are mounted on a drive shaft 7. This drive shaft is counterbalanced by a counterweight 8 and driven from a drive shaft 6 which transmits power
ss to the eccentric drive shaft 7 through a pair of beveled gears. Guides 12 are provided to prevent whipping of the blade 10 when the machine is operating at high speed. The whole device is mounted in a suitable frame
40 11 which is securely bolted to the main frame
yl of the machine. The scoring blade 10 is
connected to the eccentrics 9 by means of
bolts, yokes and springs, this arrangement
being designed to allow a certain amount of
45 play as the separators of the belt pass under the blade.
In operation the blocks 5 pass under the cutter blade110 while in a semi-plastic state. The cutter blades dip into the semi-plastic
00''.material and as the block moves forward a
ridge is raised in the surface of the block. These ridges are normally about 1/2" apart, average 28 ridges to a 12" width of block. After passing under the scoring bar or blade the blocks remain on the carrier belt until they become hard and set, when they are discharged at the end of the machine.
Having thus described our invention what we claim is:
1. In a block scoring machine a suitable carrier comprising moulds for the block, driving means therefor, and a scoring device comprising a transverse blade and means to drive it in successive up and down movements.
2. In a tile scoring machine a scoring device comprising a scoring blade, guides therefor, a drive shaft having a rotary motion, eccentrics connecting the rotating drive shaft to the scoring blade, transforming the. 70 rotary motion into a vertical reciprocal motion, and a counterbalance on the drive shaft
to balance the weight of the eccentrics and the scoring blade.
3. In a tile scoring machine a scoring de- 75 vice comprising a suitable frame securely fastened to the frame of the machine, a counterweighted rotating drive shaft, eccentrics attached to the shaft, and a scoring blade connected to the eccentrics through so yokes, bolts and springs, and guides to prevent the scoring blade whipping at high speed.
4. The method of scoring building blocks, comprising the passing of the building 85 blocks through a scoring device while continuously in motion, and raising ridges in the face of the block, by means of a blade acting intermittently transversely of the direction of travel of the blocks.
5. In a tile scoring machine, a continuous series of movable molds arranged to receive a plastic material, a rigid, movably mounted scoring element, means for reciprocating said scoring element substantially vertically adjacent the plastic material and contacting therewith during the movement of the molds so as to form before the setting of said material a series of substantially parallel score
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Remington Arms Company 11
Remington Arms was founded by Eliphalet Remington in 1816 in Ilion, New York. Its primary name was E. Remington and Sons. It is the oldest functioning firearms company that still continues to manufacture both firearms and ammunition domestically. Moreover it is the largest producer of rifles and shotguns in the US. Its headquarters is situated at Huntsville, AL, Lonoke, AR, Hickory, KY, Elizabethtown, KY, Ilion, NY, Madison, NC, United States; and they have their business spread across 60 countries. With Robert Nardelli as the CEO this firearms manufacturer earns approximately $393 million in annual revenue. Besides their headquarters they also have another manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama. This plant facilitated a $84 million boon to the economy of Alabama.
Their product line up displays – Air Guns, Shotguns, Centerfire Rifles, Muzzle loaders, Rimfire Rifles, Compact Models, Left Hand Models, Tactical Models, Handguns, 2020 Digital Optic. Ammunition for Shot shells, Centerfire Rifle, Rimfire and Centerfire Pistol & Revolver, UMC®, Industrial components and Air Gun accessories, Gun Parts, Gun Care accessories, Cutlery and Vehicle Accessories. Besides they provide custom built services. They also undertake community programs like Remington Camp Cooking, Remington Country Outfitters, Remington Gun Club, Remington on Tour etc.
With the proliferation of online firearm stores today, the New Frontier Armory online store is a convenient site for all your weaponry needs. This company has a physical store in North Las Vegas, Nevada. New Frontier Armory was founded in 2009 and deals in all firearms including class III weapons. The retail store is over […]
Gunbroker, or gunbroker.com is an online web-based firearms auction broker company, based in Atlanta, Georgia. This company was established in 1999 by Steven F Urvan who is the Chief Technology Officer and CEO of the company. The Chief Operating Officer is Donald Hall. Gunbroker does not sell weapons, but makes provisions for third parties to […]
In 2010, a new era came into existence in weapons technology with the arrival of Remington’s M2010 Enhanced Sniper Rifle. It is not just a basic sniper rifle system because it consists of one enhanced sniper rifle chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum for extended effective range and targeting penetration capabilities. It was previously known as […]
Here is a list of AR-10 Manufacturers. The original AR-10 was invented by ArmaLite back in the 1950s, yet there are many companies who make the AR-10 model now. The AR-10 is a 7.62mm NATO rifle that was the predecessor to the AR-15. It looks just like the AR-15, is highly customizable, yet shoots the […]
Our AR-15 Manufacturers List article was so helpful for people, we decided to do another one of shotgun manufacturers. This shotgun manufacturers list and our other lists are good to do for several reasons. First, when the world descends into chaos, patriots are going to need a quick reference on where to go to get arms. And […]
Buds Guns, also known as Buds Gun Shop is a one-stop online gun shop of guns for sale. They have a physical location as well, for the convenience of those customers who prefer to see and check what they are getting before parting with their hard-earned money. You can get some good deals with guns […]
One of the most iconic models of any firearm manufacturer to date is the Remington 700. Estimates have shown that over the last 200 odd years, gun manufacturers in the US have probably produced more firearms than any given country in the world. There have been quite a few famous models produced – the Single Action […]
This is a review of the SIG Sauer Mosquito. One of the best ways to train inexpensively with a handgun is to use a version chambered in 22 lr (long rifle). Inexpensive rim fire ammunition allows the shooter to develop trigger control, breath control and other bad shooting habits. Today we will look at the […]
Table of Contents AR-15 Manufacturers (Numbers, A – B) AR-15 Manufacturers (C – H) AR-15 Manufacturers (I – O) AR-15 Manufacturers (P – S) AR-15 Manufacturers (T- Z) AR-15 MANUFACTURERS (P – S) Palmetto State Armory (PSA) Palmetto State Defense Patriot Defense Arms Patriot Ordnance Factory (POF) PEC Armory Precision Firearms Precision Reflex Predator Custom Shop Predator Tactical Primary […]
The Remington 870 Wingmaster is one of the most respected and well-known pump shotguns that was lightweight, affordable, durable, and dependable in firearm history. It has been around since 1949, and has had almost too many variations to count since its inception. The shotgun was designed by John Douglas Pederson – John worked both for […]
Back in 2003, the US Army issued a market survey for a 7.62 mm Semi-Automatic Sniper System (SASS). Smith Enterprise responded to the market survey with an M14 rifle variant that was very impressive. The Army should adopt the M14 Rifle for its sniper needs. Below is a copy of SEI’s response to the market […]
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Kwaku Boakye-Frempong is a Ghanaian composer. He started composing and arranging at age, 15. Some of his compositions and arrangements were performed by the Pope John Senior High School Choir while he was organist in high school and he has composed pieces for several instruments.
Since he is a baroque enthusiast, a lot of his works follow the style including his oratorio Lucifer..
He has studied Georg Friedrich Händel's composition and wants to revive baroque music and fuse it with African music.
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Responding to images and landscapes of war and conflict, Hillary Mushkin’s Incendiary Traces project began as an LA Forum online gallery in 2011. In honor of the current Incendiary Traces exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, we talked with Mushkin about the project’s evolution.
When LA Forum Board member Gloria Lee invited me to do a project for the LAF gallery, I had been working on animation and drawing projects for several years that pictured Los Angeles as a war zone. Their impetus stretches back to 2003 when the George W. Bush administration began talking about bombing Baghdad, which incited memories of the 1991 US Baghdad bombing media coverage. Specifically, CNN’s green night scope footage which was shot from a distance, framing a sky filled with the abstract missile fire lights, almost like a fireworks show, and I wondered if the new Baghdad bombing would be represented similarly. Inspired by this, I created a video project called the Sleep of Reason in 2003-2004 that brought together hand-traced animation of the CNN footage with reversed footage of Fourth of July fireworks from my Cypress Park neighborhood. Through hand-tracing, I sought to engage, in an embodied manner, with a remote war that I felt some responsibility to address as a US citizen.
In 2011, when Gloria invited me to do the LA Forum online gallery, the US had been engaged in Middle East war for almost a decade. I returned to the project, recognizing that architects, like artists, are professionally trained to imagine landscapes and understand them as places where people live. I thought we could work together to make a connection between landscape, specifically, a war zone, as a pictured and lived environment.
How has the project evolved between 2011 and the current Pomona College Museum of Art exhibition?
For the LA Forum online gallery, I wrote a text and made some drawings that visually attempted to overlay Cypress Park onto Baghdad. The text included the question, could we reverse-engineer the image of a palm-dotted landscape to connect Los Angeles with this distant war? I began drawing with a group of artists outside the Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo. Their public affairs office thought we should be more interested in drawing aircraft and landing strips, but the mundane side of war was in fact our interest. When the Department of Defense police asked us not to draw their gated driveway it prompted a dialog about observation, drawing, and authority; which was the inspiration for what came after.
At that time Juan Devis was launching KCET’s cultural journalism program Artbound and invited me to collaborate. This created a broader opportunity to present alternative approaches to visualizing war zones as well as share historical and contemporary insights from scholars and others on the subject. Since then I have organized about ten drawing events and published materials on the various ways militaries and paramilitaries visualize conflict zones — all of which is part of the current exhibition.
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Mung Bean balls?
I remember years ago every grocery and restaurant in china town bellaire and viet town in midtown had mung bean balls. Now I can't find them ANYWHERE.
These are the perfectly round balls covered in sesame seeds and fried. I've seen plant balls that look like it but filled with red bean paste usually. the mung beans are a yellow grainy texture within the sesame covered dough. - not the dark red.
Does anyone know where I can find them?
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Perfect Residence For Large Family, Embassy or Established Company in Erasmusrand, Old Pretoria East!
A lovely family dwelling situated in the quite suburb of Erasmusrand, Pretoria with a beautifully established garden with easy accessibility to the N1 and R21 from many directions. Very central location and away from the highway noise and traffic.
The property has 4 bedrooms that will accommodate king size beds as well as seating and/or working tables, 2 studies/gym, 2 lounges, very big kitchen with granite tops, new stove, new double oven and a breakfast nook that will seat 6 adults, scullery, 4 toilets (one outside), 1 big shower, 2 baths and indoor separate laundry with places for top loader washing machines and dryers as well as for front loaders and deep freezer appliances.
There is a big private patio that will accommodate about 30 people.
There is also staff quarters with toilet (no hot water). The main bedroom has its own en suite toilet, and en suite bathroom as well as a walk-in closet. The many cupboards allow for excellent storage facilities.
There are 4 automated secure garages that will fit 4 large cars or even 3 with a caravan. The garage is accessible from within the house. There is also a huge walk-in safe to keep valuable items.
The full house has completely been secured with burglar proof all around, an automated shutter for the sleeping area and two independent alarm systems with individual controls.
There is enough parking for visitors that will accommodate about 15 cars inside the stand, which is ideal for parties, meetings and for the work-from-home individuals.
This is a great investment opportunity! Make your offer today and avoid being disappointed!
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Instructions for the Task
For the session to be discussed on June 14, 2020
What is “the harvest” in today’s passage? We discuss this call from Jesus to the disciples to bring healing and wholeness to this current torn world. As we record, racial injustice is front and center in our land, and is an example of the sort of harvest needing laborers that Jesus describes.
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I have been looking forward to visiting the Little Goat Diner on West Randolph St with eager anticipation for quite some time now. I have been to Stephanie Izard’s Flagship restaurant the Girl in the Goat a few times and I really love that place but it is so hard to get a table. There are no reservations at the Diner, so all I was hoping to need to get a table was a little patience. We headed over to the RandoIph Street Restaurant area riding the elevated railway up to the Morgan stop and taking the short 5 minute walk south. The Diner was pretty easy to spot as I walked down Randolph Street as there is a big white revolving goat on the top of the building. I kind of wanted to stop and watch it spin around for a while but I knew that inside there was going to be a whole lot of tasty food just waiting for us.
It was pretty busy inside and much bigger than I was expecting, with commnunal tables, booths, and counter top service, I would guess it could seat close to 100 people. As expected once inside it was a case of first come first served as there is no reservations, but we didn’t have to wait more than 15 minutes. One nice touch is that if you have a cell phone they will send you a text message when your table is ready so you don’t have to hang around. The good thing was that we got a bit of time to sit and peruse the menu to see what the Little Goat had to offer us for lunch.
At first I had planned to have some sort of breakfast type item maybe some eggs and bacon, or perhaps maybe a corned beef hash? Then on the walk over I starting thinking that maybe I should have something goat related, a burger perhaps. Then as I started to cast my eyes down the menu, it all changed as I saw the two words ‘Grilled Cheese’. Ever since I heard that Grahamwich had shuttered and his dream of a grilled cheese sandwich was removed from the memories of my mouth I had wondered where my next go-to grilled cheese was going to come from. Could this be the one? Would Steph and her Little Goat team come to the rescue with a new grilled cheese to hang my hopes and sandwich dreams upon?
The sandwich was fantastic, it was nothing that I wanted and yet everything that I wanted at the same time. I still had a memory map of Graham’s sandwich etched in my mind and it needed something special to dissolve the synaptic threads holding that memory in place. This was a very different Grilled Cheese sandwich beast indeed. Filled with smoked gouda and smoked tomato, well would you be surprised to hear that it has a smokey backnote? Then you add in the sweet almost tangy and creamy Montamore cheese and you were getting a good combination of creaminess and smokiness. I needed to know more about this cheese so I googled it and on the Sartori website I found the following description “Like a new romance, this sweet, creamy and fruity cheese begins with a deliciously inviting appearance and finishes with a playful, tangy bite”. Yes that it what I was getting from the bite into my sandwich. The sandwich wasn’t finished yet with its assault upon my tastebuds, they had also thrown in some pork guanciale (typically an unsmoked Italian bacon prepared with pig’s jowl) which was less prominent flavor wise than I had expected. It was better than having salty pancetta, it did add a little light saltiness but not too much perhaps there was just a hint of pepperiness. I am imagining that you probably have figured out that I quite liked this sandwich, and the best part? it was only $10.
My companion had the Pork Belly Pancake for $12, this was a scallion pancake topped with grilled pork belly with hoisin sauce all covered with a shredded bok choy salad and a ginger maple dressing. I didn’t get to taste any of this and the verdict I was given was “absolutely delicious”
After we had finished our lunch and I was still salivating from my sandwich we wandered next door into the attached Little Goat Bread. Initially we had just intended to get a roll or bit of bread to make a sandwich with later. I was pretty surprised to find a bar and a whole load more sandwiches and soups that we could buy to take home. Luckily we were pretty full or we would have been buying even more food.
As it was I finally did get my hands on something goat related, buying a cup of Goat Chili for my supper. This was also very good, and to be fair I didn’t expect anything less. It was surprisingly a little sweet, but that was a nice surprise, it made it a little bit different. There was a bit of spice not too much of a hit and there were some crunchy chickpeas in there. If anything it had a morroccan air about it. If I was passing by this way as the weather gets colder this would be a perfect hit to blow those chills away.
I really liked the Little Goat Diner, it was just what I hoped for, and the Little Goat Bread next door was an added bonus. It was hard not to spend the entire post talking about that grilled cheese sandwich, and I will just have to see if I have the will power to try something else if I visit again. Odds are thought that will be an epic fail in originality of menu choice and I will succumb to another Grilled Cheese.
The nearest El Stop is on the Pink Line at Morgan.
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Who, among us is thinking about how to become the best version of oneself? Who think about improving oneself and does not know where to start? Who has spent a significant amount of time looking for a book with a precise modus operandi to follow?
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This video is called Whales evolution.
Not only news about big land mammals during the Ice Age … also about big marine mammals before the Ice Age.
From the University of Otago in New Zealand:
Strange marine mammals of ancient North Pacific revealed
February 5, 2014
The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, new research reveals. Studying hundreds of fossil bones and teeth excavated from the San Francisco Bay Area‘s Purisima Formation, scientists have put together a record of 21 marine mammal species including dwarf baleen whales, odd double-tusked walruses, porpoises with severe underbites and a dolphin closely related to the now-extinct Chinese river dolphin.
The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, research by a Geology PhD student at New Zealand’s University of Otago reveals.
Studying hundreds of fossil bones and teeth he excavated from the San Francisco Bay Area’s Purisima Formation, Robert Boessenecker has put together a record of 21 marine mammal species including dwarf baleen whales, odd double-tusked walruses, porpoises with severe underbites and a dolphin closely related to the now-extinct Chinese river dolphin.
Mr Boessenecker named the whale in honour of San Diego State University‘s Professor Annalisa Berta, who has made numerous contributions to the study of fossil marine mammals and mentored many students.
Although an extinct species, it belongs within the same genus as minke and fin whales, indicating that the Balaenoptera lineage has lasted for 3-4 million years. Balaenoptera bertae would have been approximately 5-6 meters in length, slightly smaller than modern minke whales, Mr Boessenecker says.
His findings appear in the most recent edition of the international journal Geodiversitas.
The publication represents eight years of research by Mr Boessenecker, who was 18 in 2004 when he was tipped off by a local surfer about bones near Half Moon Bay. When he discovered the fossil site, he was astonished by the numerous bone-beds and hundreds of bones sticking out of the cliffs.
He excavated the incomplete skull of Balaenoptera bertae during early field research there in 2005 and it was encased in a hard concretion that took five years to remove.
“The mix of marine mammals I ended up uncovering was almost completely different to that found in the North Pacific today, and to anywhere else at that time,” he says.
Primitive porpoises and baleen whales were living side-by-side with comparatively modern marine mammals such as the Northern fur seal and right whales. And species far geographically and climatically removed from their modern relatives also featured, such as beluga-like whales and tusked walruses, which today live in the Arctic, he says.
“At the same time as this eclectic mix of ancient and modern-type marine mammals was living together, the marine mammal fauna in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean were already in the forms we find today.”
Mr Boessenecker says this strange fauna existed up until as recently as one or two million years ago. Its weirdness was likely maintained by warm equatorial waters and barriers to migration by other marine mammals posed by the newly formed Isthmus of Panama, and the still-closed Bering Strait.
“Once the Bering Strait opened and the equatorial Pacific cooled during the Ice Age, modernised marine mammals were able to migrate from other ocean basins into the North Pacific, leading to the mix we see today,” he says.
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Last weekend I was lucky enough to go on a quilting/sewing retreat with a group of 15 other woman.
I stayed here
OMGosh I cannot tell you how much fun and what a fantastic time I had, it was a seriously needed break for me.
I managed to make a couple of things in between the eating and laughing, there was some sewing done.
So for this post I just wanted to share the completed table runner I made.
I did some straight line quilting on the centre panel and in the borders I stitched in the ditch.
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Current TV services are evolving rapidly; mid- and longterm convergence of TV and Internet will definitely change the way we all watch TV. On one hand, it will offer the end user more new interactive and pleasing capabilities; on the other, broadcasters and operators will face a new value chain where newcomers can take advantage of the Internet and software technologies to offer end users customised advertising and targeted content, associated with personalised content. This profoundly affects the business model of current broadcasters who still adopt a relatively static end-to-end approach. Cloud architecture and services are the key aspect of this enticing new business model for future TV programme makers. Dematerialised infrastructure and software-intensive systems will offer newcomers affordable solutions to compete efficiently against traditional broadcasters. The ICARE project intends to explore this domain by demonstrating a way of using the cloud to transport, process, deliver and protect content over a distributed, non-proprietary and adaptive architecture.
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There has been angry reaction within India's governing Congress party to claims the KGB infiltrated Indira Gandhi's government in the 1970s.
Indira Gandhi sought stronger links with the Soviet Union
A former KBG official says in a new book that the Soviet intelligence agency had an extensive network of contacts in the government.
Congress party spokesmen say the allegations in the book are baseless and not worth commenting on.
Mrs Gandhi led three Congress governments before being assassinated.
Excerpts of the new book, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, were widely published in the Indian press on Sunday.
In the book, ex-KGB worker Vasili Mitrokhin says the intelligence agency bribed Indian officials with millions of dollars, and used agents to persuade Mrs Gandhi to declare a state of emergency in 1975.
"We had scores of sources throughout the Indian government," the book quotes former KGB general Oleg Kalugin as saying.
"It seemed like the entire country was for sale."
Congress Party general secretary Ambika Soni told the BBC the author had no evidence for his claims.
She said his book showed he had not one iota of knowledge about India.
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In Scotland, everyone who has experienced mental health issues has a right to access independent advocacy.
We provide individual advocacy for people aged 18-65 years old in East Lothian and Midlothian who have experienced a mental health issue.
Our service is free of charge and provided by trained advocacy workers and volunteers.
We can arrange for one of our advocacy workers to meet with you, when and where it suits you both.
We can help you to deal with all sorts of issues relating to your mental health, such as housing, employment and services you use or would like to use.
you can feel overwhelmed by a situation
- people are not taking the time to explain things properly
- people are not listening to what you say
- people have decided that you are not able to make decisions, and make them for you
- professionals use jargon or words you don’t understand
CAPS Individual Advocacy can support you to make your own choices and access services, but we do not give advice or act as counsellors or befrienders.
ADVOCATES CAN HELP YOU
to have your say
- to get the information you need to understand and make decisions
- to challenge decisions you don’t agree with
- in situations when you are vulnerable
- to safeguard your rights
- by supporting you to prepare for meetings
- by going with you to appointments
- by talking to you about what has been decided
To contact Individual Advocacy Workers
phone: 0131 273 5118
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Sacaton Traffic and Road Conditions
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- Click an incident icon on the map to get more information.
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Before I even get started, I have to be completely honest. I am in no way trying to say that I have the all-knowing answers to curing stress for mothers. Because let’s be honest ladies – there is no way you will ever be able to get completely get rid of the stress that’s brought on by being a mother. When you’re not around your kids, odds are you’ve already planned everything so that their daily routine can go on smoothly and you’re still probably stressing that something isn’t going to go as planned. And when you actually take a day off you feel guilty, huh?
If you’re looking for a spell to magically erase all of your stress, then you’re in the wrong place and should probably just stop reading before you get too involved. However, if you’re rational and are looking for ways to manage stress in a realistic manner – then you’re in the right place and you should take notes. In fact, maybe you should bookmark this article and use it as a reference from time-to-time when you’re experiencing a stressful time.
It doesn’t go away.
First things first, accept that stress is never going to go away. Once you’ve accepted the reality that lies behind stress then you’ll be much closer to overcoming the obstacles that are ahead. Stress will always exist however, if you’re able to accept the inevitable then your expectations will be realistic and you won’t fall too hard when things become difficult. Accepting the reality of life is the first and most important part of managing stress.
Yes, stay-at-home mama I’m talking to you too! It can be as simple as going to the bathroom alone or as long as taking a nap when your child is napping. Each day make it a priority to stop and take time for yourself. This period of time will provide you with the opportunity to hit the reset button.
Stop making excuses for the undone to-do list.
Let me guess, you never finish everything on your to-do list. Or maybe you’re too preoccupied to even write out a list. Guess what, it’s totally fine! Stop making unachievable expectations for yourself. Instead of trying to cram everything into your schedule, prioritize the important tasks and go from there. If you can’t achieve everything then take another go at the list the following day. Don’t beat yourself up. You’re only one person and you don’t have to be an over achiever.
Stop comparing yourself to other mothers.
Does it really matter if Sally’s mom made homemade Valentine’s cards and your kid brought store bought ones? Who cares if Dylan’s mom managed to do her hair and you didn’t. As women, we must stop comparing ourselves to each other. In reality, we’re only hurting ourselves and setting each other up for failure. Next time you feel an urge to judge another mother, take a breath and say one nice thing to that mother. That woman will appreciate your kind words and hopefully one day, when she’s feeling the same negative competition, she’ll stop and do the same thing. Instead of spreading animosity, mothers need to spread positivity.
Make your children responsible.
As mothers we want to be able to do everything. From the laundry to making a homemade meal, we want it all to be completed with a June Cleaver smile. Truth is mothers who try to do everything and do not incorporate their children into the mix are only hurting their kids. Part of being a mother is teaching children how to function in the real world. Make chore lists and assign other responsibilities for each child. Being a mother doesn’t necessarily mean you have to do everything.
Learn how to say no.
It’s important to accept and realize that mothers have the ability to say no. Ditch the yes ma’am stigma and think about yourself. Even though mothers are responsible for their children, they have to remember to prioritize themselves as well. If a mother is not healthy, both mentally and physically, then she will be unable to be a good mother. Taking care of yourself, as a mother, goes hand-in-hand with being a good parent.
Remember moms, there is no how-to manual and in reality the whole parenting gig is truly trial and error. While the presence of stress will never fully go away, it’s important to realize that there are many ways to manage the stress that is experienced. Next time you’re feeling stressed, turn to these six tips for relief and comfort.
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This Orlando vacation villa has 6 bedrooms, 4 baths and is located in the exclusive 24 hour guarded community of Windsor Hills; less than five minutes from Walt Disney World!
This Orlando vacation villa is professionally furnished to the highest of standard. Some of the upgrades include 2 separate sitting areas, granite countertops, upgraded stainless steal appliances and 42" cherry cabinets in the gourmet kitchen, and a paver-brick deck area around the inviting pool and spa.
The home has a well established mangement company in Orlando. In addition to ensuring the villa fully complies with Florida State licensing requirements for rented accommodation, they ensure the house is maintained in top condition and are on hand in the event you need assistance during your stay.
For your convenience, you are given a code to access the home, without having to drive to a key collection point or worry about contacting the management company if your travel arrangements are running behind schedule.
As you enter the villa you walk into the first of two sitting areas, this first quiet zone is ideal for reading a book! The second is to the rear of the villa overlooking the pool, this has a flat screen TV for relaxing in the evening.
Upgraded appliances and cabinets in the fully equipped gourmet kitchen, allow you to cook a meal at home and rest after a day at the park. You also have utility room with washer, dryer and ironing facilities.
You have two eating areas in the home, a more formal setting (Seats 6) and a large breakfast table (Seats 6), which overlooks the pool at the rear of the villa.
Master Bedroom - Located upstairs, to the rear of the villa, has a King Bed in soothing colours, TV, Walk in wardrobe, Ensuite bathroom with separate soaking tub and walk in shower.
2nd Master Bedroom - Located upstairs to the front of the villa, has a King Bed with stylish furnishing, TV, Double Ensuite Showeroom.
3rd Bedroom - Located downstairs, has a Queen bed, TV and neighbouring bathroom.
4th Bedroom - Located upstairs to the rear of the villa, has a King Bed, TV and walk in wardrobe.
5th Bedroom - Located upstairs, has Twin beds with TV.
6th Bedroom - Located upstairs, has Twin beds decorated in a beach theme with TV.
Bedrooms 4, 5 and 6 all share the main family bathroom, also located upstairs.
Fun-filled game room with pool table, air hockey, dart board, PS2 console plus games and TV
Fabulous South East facing pool giving sun throughout the day.
FREE Wireless high speed internet access for you to keep in touch with everyone back home.
Baby Equipment at the home includes gate, high chair and travel cot.
Windsor Hills Resort Villas & Vacation Rentals By Owner in Orlando, Florida. Windsor Hills is situated in one of the prime locations, being less than 3 miles from the Disney's main gate and many attractions in and around Orlando. Windsor Hills is an upscale and very popular gated vacation rental resort, maintaining its exclusive feel and privacy with the benefit of 24 hr security. We have a selection of over 30 luxury Windsor Hills vacation rentals and villas to consider for your dream Florida holiday, all with private pools and many with spas. NO SERVICE FEES
Windsor Hills Vacation Rentals from 3 - 6 Bedrooms
All our Windsor Hills Resort rental villas have fully equipped kitchens with dishwashers, microwaves, hobs etc so you can cook a four course meal if you like. They all also have laundry rooms with washers, dryers and ironing boards so you don't have to live out of a suitcase while on holiday. One of the great things about the Windsor Hills villas is the ratio of bathrooms to bedrooms meaning you don't have to share if you don't want too, with many of the 4 and 5 bedroom vacation homes having all en-suites. Even the 6 bedrooms Windsor Hills homes have 4 or 5 bathrooms with at least 3 en-suites making them ideal for large families.
A lot of the Windsor Hills Resort vacation rentals have themed bedrooms from Mickey Mouse, Princess, Tinker Bell, Surf, Harry Potter and even a Pirates of the Caribbean which can be a great treat for the kids and something a little bit different to there normal rooms.
Most of our Windsor Hills vacation rentals by owner have games room with pool tables, table football, darts and even bikes the kids can ride and tennis rackets for use on the free courts. Recently a lot of owners have added Wii's, Xbox 360's or Playstation 3's ideal to keep the kids happy after a long day at the parks when you want to relax by the pool with a glass of wine. Please check each of the Windsor Hills rental homes descriptions to see what games consoles they have available, one thing to note is that if you are coming from the UK your games won't work on the US systems.
A great feature that all the Windsor Hills villas have is a covered area by the pool which is know as the lanai, this is ideal in the summer months when the temperatures reach around 100F and you want a little shade to cool off in. Most people go to Florida for the sunshine but after 15 minutes sitting in 100F you will be glad of the covered lanai area and the shade it offers, also it's ideal for small children to play in without the fear of getting burnt. Florida is known for having some amazing storms especially in the summer and having the covered lanai allows you sit outside and watch them with a cold drink which can be great fun.
The Windsor Hills Orlando Resort also has a clubhouse which is open to guests all year round and features a large communal pool with water slide and hot tub, loads of sun loungers so you can choose to sit in the sun or shade. Windsor Hills also has a sundry shop open from 8am - 10pm everyday selling groceries, newspapers, drinks, ice creams and toiletries. If the xbox isn't enough to keep the kids busy then the clubhouse has a games arcade and pool room. If you want to keep on top of your fitness the Windsor Hills clubhouse has a state of the art gym open to all guests free of charge. The Windsor Hills clubhouse also has a 50 seater cinema showing movies daily so please check with clubhouse reception to see what's playing.
There are also two on site playgrounds with swings, slides and roundabouts, tennis and basket balls courts with flood lights, a 7 hole putting green and sand volleyball court. No matter what you are looking for Windsor Hills Resort has it covered this is why it's one of the most sort after Florida vacation rental communities in Orlando.
We have luxury vacation rental homes located across Windsor Hills on Renshaw Street, Daulby Street, Dinville Street, Manesty Lane, Beechfield Street, Teascone Boulevard, Archfeld Blvd, Hol Trock Street and Basnett Circle offering a great choice for this popular Orlando community.
Keen golfers will be pleased to note Windsor Hills Resort is directly next to the Mystic Dunes Golf Course which is one of the best golf courses in the Orlando area and is a great test for all skill levels. Other golfs courses within 5 minutes of our Windsor Hills vacation rentals include Falcons Fire, Celebration Golf Club and the 4 courses at Disney World which are the Magnolia, Palm, Osprey Ridge and Lake Buena Vista. The Disney courses are the home of the Children's Miracle Classic PGA Tour Event which is played in November on the Magnolia and Lake Buena Vista courses. There are another 25 golf courses within 15 minutes of Windsor Hills Resort and then 100 within 60 minutes so you will never have to play the same course twice.
Within a 2 mile radius of the Windsor Hills Resort is a Publix supermarket, a 24 hour Walgreen's pharmacy and numerous restaurants for all budgets are readily available.
Windsor Hills Reserve was the second part of the Windsor Hills Resort to be built which is now a completed resort.
We have over 35 Windsor Hills Resort rentals available, so please contact them direct to ask any question, check availability or book. Don't just take our word for it you can also read Windsor Hills villa reviews from previous guests that have stayed in our rental homes by click on the review stars on by going to the reviews tab on each of the vacation rental listings.
Driving Distances from the Windsor Hills Resort to the Orlando Theme Parks
We have added the actual driving distances to all the main Orlando theme parks below, these are not the distances to the main gate which most people quote, as this would reduce the distance, but to the actual car park for each attraction. Most of the jouney to the parks are on highways or interstates driving between 55-65 MPH so it's pretty quick to get to all the parks.
- Animal Kingdom - 3 miles
- Hollywood Studios - 5.5 miles
- Magic Kingdom - 7 miles
- Epcot - 7 miles
- SeaWorld - 11.5 miles
- Universal Studios - 15.5 miles
Useful Things to know when staying at the Windsor Hills Resort
We have put together some blog posts that we hope will help you if your staying on the Windsor Hills Resort, it has lots of FAQ's so please check it out - Windsor Hills Resort Review and Tips
We also thought it would be good to have some details of how to get from Orlando Airport to the Windsor Hills Resort so please check out the blog link - Driving Direction from Orlando Airport (MCO) to the Windsor Hills Resort
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Excellent First Adventure to Florida
We have just returned from a fabulous 2 week holiday in Florida at this Villa.
We went with our friends and the villa was more than large enough to accommodate 2 families with two teenage boys and two eleven year old girls.
We had no problem booking the villa with Iain of Citrus Grove Villas. he was really good at helping with all aspects of the holiday from airport transfers, villa arrangements, useful info about the area etc..
The villa pool was lovely and we paid extra for pool heating which was worth it, as the kids loved the pool and hot tub.
We spent most of the time in the kitchen / dining area and ate in quite a bit in the evening to make use of the pool and also bacause we got back so late each night after a funfilled days in the parks.
The location is the great thing for this villa being only 10-15 mins away from any Disney Parks.
The Windsor Hills estate is very safe and secure with 24hr security on the gates.
We would have no problem recommending this villa or Cirtus Grove Villas for a Florida holiday.
Date of stay: March 2013
Reviewer name: Pearce & Ware Family, Oxfordshire - UK
Windsor Hills Villa
We had a lovely holiday, your villa was lovely, and we spent many happy hours in the house and around the pool area. We hope to rent your house again in the future! Thank you again
Date of stay: March 2013
Reviewer name: Diane, Tipton, West Midlands
Location Location Location
Can't beat this location, we will be back to see Mickey and his friend next year, love this place!
Date of stay: October 2012
Reviewer name: Mickey Mania, UK
We had a fantastic time. Your house is beautiful and we really enjoyed our stay there. Hopefully we'll be returning next year so you could hear from us some time soon ... Thanks Again
Date of stay: May 2012
Reviewer name: Sealey Family, Doncaster
Wanted to say thank you for everything! We had a wonderful trip and enjoyed the villa very much!
Date of stay: February 2012
Reviewer name: WG, Riverview, Canada
The kids loved the pool!
Just letting you know that we had a great time in Florida, and the house worked out great! Thank you and we may be contacting you again in a year or so!
Date of stay: January 2012
Reviewer name: Kennedy Family, Scarborough, ON
Hi Claire, Just wanted to say a big thank you for arranging for us to stay in your Florida home at short notice, the house was fantastic & we had a really nice stay. Also I would like to mention how helpful Iain was in sorting things out for us. We are regular visitors to Florida & will contact you when we plan our next visit
Date of stay: June 2011
Reviewer name: Broadbent Family, UK
We really enjoyed our holiday in Orlando and thank you for arranging the villa which was perfect for our family. Thank you for your help.
Date of stay: April 2011
Reviewer name: Lynch Family, Stockport
Definitely recommend to family and friends
Just to let you know that we had a fantastic holiday and loved our stay in the villa. It was extremely easy to get to all the destinations we wanted and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. We would definitely recommend it to our family and friends.
Date of stay: October 2010
Reviewer name: Farrell Family, Farsley, Leeds
Thank-you for your comments, pleased to hear you had a lovely time - it's hard not too!!!! Happy to help with your next stay in Orlando.
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Ike Wister Turner. November 5, 1931 Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. December 12, 2007 San Marcos, California, USA
Ike Turner was an American musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer. His first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "first rock and roll song" ever. However, he is best known for his work with his ex-wife Tina Turner as one half of the Ike & Tina Turner revue. Spanning a career that lasted half a century, Ike's repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk. Alongside his former wife, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Turner won two Grammy Awards.
Turner was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on November 5, 1931, to Beatrice Cushenberry, a seamstress and Izear Luster Turner, a Baptist minister. Ike was the younger of two siblings, he had an elder sister, Lee Ethel. Ike got his first taste of pleasing an audience at the age of eight working at the local Clarksdale radio station, WROX, located in the Alcazar Hotel in downtown Clarksdale. A man in charge of the station put Turner to work as he watched the record turntables. Said Turner: “ I got a job driving the elevator in the Alcazar and the radio station was on the second floor. It was very exciting to me, a radio station. I'd run up to the second floor and look through the window at the guy spinning records. He saw me and told me to come in and showed me how to 'hold a record.' I'd sit there and hold it until the one playing stopped, then I'd turn a knob and the one I was holding would play. Next thing I know, he was going across the street for coffee and leaving me in there alone. I was only eight. That was the beginning of my thing with music. ”
Turner was soon carrying amplifiers for blues singer Robert Nighthawk, who often played live on WROX. Ike was mesmerized by Nighthawk's playing, but nothing could equal the experience of hearing Pinetop Perkins on piano for the first time. Growing up, his idol Pinetop Perkins helped teach the young Ike to play boogie-woogie on the piano. Ike soon was enamored of other blues artists such as Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Charley Booker, Elmore James, Muddy Waters and Little Walter.
Many sources state Turner's real name to be "Izear Luster Turner, Jr." however, in his autobiography Takin' Back My Name, it is stated as "Ike Wister Turner." In the book, Turner explains about this confusion. His father, Izear Luster Turner, was a minister for the local church. Turner had thought he was named Izear Luster Turner, Jr. after his father, until he found out that his name was registered as Ike Wister Turner while applying for his first passport. He never got to discover the origin of his name, as by the time he discovered it, his parents were both dead.
Ike Turner's actual music career began in earnest in the late-1940s where he formed a group whom he christened The Kings of Rhythm. In 1951, the band recorded what some historians have debated as "the first rock and roll record" with "Rocket 88", credited to Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats (this band did not actually exist). Brenston was both the band's saxophonist and the lead vocalist of the song, and on the original Chess release was listed as the song's writer. "Rocket 88" was produced at Sun Studio in Memphis by Sam Phillips. The record was one of the first examples of guitar distortion, which happened by accident when one of the amplifiers was dropped before the recording.
Ike and the Kings of Rhythm settled into local fame in St. Louis where the band locally recorded for a St. Louis label and even appeared on local television shows. Throughout this early period, Turner became a recording scout and A&R man for independent record companies including Sun Records - where "Rocket 88" was recorded, helping the likes of Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James and Otis Rush get signed. He also became a sideman playing guitar for these blues acts and more. Musically, Turner was known for his hard-hitting guitar style. He was known to put the whammy bar of his Fender Stratocaster to frequent use.
Turner's music career changed drastically after meeting a teenage singer from Nutbush, Tennessee, named Anna Mae Bullock, who demandingly grabbed a microphone during a singing session at one of St. Louis' nightspots and sang a B. B. King song in her now-trademark throated raspy vocals. Bullock's performance impressed Ike so much he allowed Anna to join his band as a background singer. However within a year, Ike's plans for Bullock changed after Anna recorded what he originally stated was a demo for a song that was to be sung by a male vocalist. After hearing her vocals, he let it be released under an independent label and in the process changed the name of the singer from Anna Mae Bullock to Tina Turner - naming her after Sheena - and the name of the band to the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. It is believed that this singular act is what propelled the now "Tina Turner" into the spotlight, creating a music mogul that would last decades. "A Fool in Love" became a national hit in early 1960, reaching the top three in the R&B charts and becoming a top thirty pop hit in the process. From then until 1976, Ike and Tina Turner became one of the most explosive duos in rock & soul music. The creation of the revue also led to the soul revues of the 1960s. Inspired by Ray Charles, Turner created a trio of sexy background singers and dancers who were named The Ikettes who often had their moves choreographed by Tina and Ike. The Turners eventually scored several hit singles including Rose Marie McCoy's "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep - Mountain High", "I Want To Take You Higher", "Proud Mary", and "Nutbush City Limits" over thirteen years.
The success the duo contributed eventually led to the creation of the Los Angeles-based Bolic Sounds studio, founded by Ike. However, after Tina abruptly left Ike after a violent altercation in 1976, Ike lost ground in the national music market. As a solo artist, he struggled to find success after Tina and after releasing two failed solo albums, had found himself facing drug and weapons charges, of which he was convicted in 1989. After the musical legend's arrest and prison term, Ike was released from prison in 1993. Ike enjoyed a long period of sobriety. During this time he recorded two solo albums in his own studio, and he wrote his autobiography called Taking Back My Name. He also re-recorded "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)" in a duet style with Billy Rogers. The remake received very strong reviews from Billboard Magazine, Larry Flick, Singles Reviews published January 14th 1995.
The musician went back on the road and back into recording music, which continued until his death. In 2001, Ike released the Grammy-nominated Here & Now album. Three years later, he was awarded with an "Heroes Award" from the Memphis charter of NARAS. In 2005, he appeared on the Gorillaz' album, Demon Days, playing piano on the track, "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead". He played live with the band on the band's world tour to that particular song. In 2007, Ike won his first solo Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for the album, Risin' With the Blues which was Mixed at Future Sound Studios by Rene Van Verseveld. Before his death, a collaboration between Turner and the rock band, The Black Keys, by Gorillaz' producer Danger Mouse was expected in 2008.
In the mid-1980s, Turner was convicted of drug-related charges and sentenced to several years in a California state prison. Turner was still in prison pleading parole when he and Tina were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, which Phil Spector accepted on their behalf (Tina was working on an album at the time).
In 2001, Turner's long-awaited autobiography, Takin' Back My Name (ISBN 1-85227-850-1), was published. In Tina Turner's 1986 autobiography, I, Tina, later filmed as What's Love Got to Do with It?, Tina accused Ike of violent spousal abuse, which Ike repeatedly denied for many years. However, in his 2001 autobiography Ike admitted, "Sure, I've slapped Tina... There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I have never beat her."
Ike converted to Judaism in 1994. During his interview with NPR's Terry Gross on Fresh Air, Ike claimed that he and Tina Turner were never married, and that she took his name in order to discourage a former lover from returning to her.. On October 17, 2007, in a telephone interview conducted by radio personality Howard Stern, Ike reiterated his claim that he and Tina Turner were never actually married.
Turner died on December 12, 2007 at 76 years of age at his home in San Marcos, California, near San Diego. He was found by his ex wife Ann Thomas. Little Richard was asked by the family to speak at the funeral. He preached a brief, powerful and sobering message.
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My mom would spend hours reading to us girls. One of my favorite childhood authors was Stephen Cosgrove. He wrote the Serendipity series of books. Wonderful books with a moral always attached.
Wheedle is a very grumpy orange sasquatch who is upset with all the people moving to Seattle. All he wants is a quiet place to sleep, but he is finding that this is close to impossible. When he heads for the top of the Space Needle and unleashes a never-ending rainfall, everyone stays indoors, and the city is quiet once again. Now, it's the Seattleites who are grumpy — who wants to stay inside all the time? Is there a solution that makes everyone happy?
Being a Seattleite this is a classic.
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Having a vacation home to go to on weekends saves you the hassle of booking a room when you want to get away. With more demand for these homes in recent years, it’s a good time to consider buying a vacation home.
Keep these tips in mind when you start your search:
- Save up money. Many buyers pay for their vacation home in cash. This isn’t a requirement, but it could boost your chances of finding and buying a home more quickly.
- Have enough for a down payment. If you can’t pay cash for a vacation home, at least have a large enough sum of money set aside for a down payment. Plan on having around 30 percent in savings for this.
- Consider buying a foreclosure or doing a short sale. A large percentage of vacation home buyers end up saving money through short sales or foreclosure purchases. These are more complex ways of buying a home, so you’ll need the help of a good realtor if you plan on going this route.
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In today’s turbulent environment all providers need high performing boards that are equipped to determine the strategic course of the organisation. The effectiveness of a board depends on strong foundations; exhibiting the right behaviours; high quality information, sound processes and skilled governance professionals.
Effective working relationships – especially between the Chair, the head of the organisation and the Secretary to the governing body – are crucial, and executive teams need to engage transparently and make timely and effective use of their board’s accumulated experience, insight and wisdom. Good governance is critical to
securing institutional resilience and success, and demands a commitment to deliver added value.
Supporting Governor and governance professionals development in 2019-20
How we support you
Our purpose is to support everyone involved in HE governance whatever their role. New Governors need briefing and orientation to understand the separation of management and governance, and their responsibilities as trustees. Student Governors need specific support to equip them for their period of office. Experienced Chairs need opportunities to network and share learning with their peers. Governance professionals need to be able to refresh their skills. Institutions need to gain assurance that their approach to governance is well founded, robust and effective. The sector needs to be able to share learning and developing practice.
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1 Logic valves are 2-way directional valves, often with positive leak free seats.
2 Operating the logic valves with a separate pilot circuit offers a wide range of opportunities for individual circuit control sequences.
3 Often logic valves are used when the flow rates are too high for conventional spool type directional valves.
4 They are also necessary when leak free operation is required.
5 The circuit design in this module is equivalent to a 4-way directional valve.
6 Click the pilot valve's solenoid on the left-hand side to activate the logic valves.
7 You can drag and drop each valve, pilot or pipe to design and test your own circuit layouts.
11 Logic elements can be used to isolate individual pipelines.
12 This type of line isolation can be useful for safety circuit design.
13 Logics are sometimes used in a sandwich plate, below a proportional valve, to isolate the cylinder in the event of a control signal failure.
21 Connecting a logic element between pipelines can be used to equalise the pressure and prevent an actuator from moving.
22 This system is sometimes used to allow motors to free wheel.
31 Regenerative circuits feed the annulus flow back into the bore side of the cylinder and therefore increase the cylinder speed while extending.
32 Regeneration can be achieved with logic elements as shown, although it is also commonly achieved using a pressure regulating or check valves.
33 In this version, you need to click the pilot valve's solenoid to switch the regenerative circuit in or out.
41 In some situations pressure relieving, reducing valves can be used to provide directional control.
42 If you can regulate the pilot pressure signal then a simple proportional control system is possible.
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52 Pilot response rates can also be controlled to facilitate ramped acceleration and deceleration.
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OUR direct ancestors may have found their way out of Africa much earlier than we think. As new fossil remains emerge from China and south-east Asia, the traditional story of how we left Africa is being challenged.
The accepted view is that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago and stayed there until 60,000 years ago, when they struck out through the Middle East and spread around the world. Any older hominin bones found outside Africa are deemed dead ends. So although the more primitive Homo erectus made it all the way to Indonesia, and probably gave rise to theNeanderthals and the Denisovans, all of these lines eventually died out. Our own species evolved solely in Africa.
The evidence for this comes partly from dating bones to specific periods, but also from genetics. As you move further away from Africa, across Asia and then the Americas, the genetic diversity of indigenous populations drops. This implies that the source population was in Africa and gradually lost diversity as it expanded. The genetics suggest that human genes went through this bottleneck 60,000 years ago.
The “out of Africa at 60,000 years ago” scenario remains the majority view. But the orthodoxy is slowly being challenged as ancient bones are uncovered in the east. As yet, though, they remain few and far between.
Last month, Christopher Bae of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Wei Wangof the Guangxi Museum of Nationalities in Nanning, China, and their colleagues described two teeth from the Luna cave in China’s Guangxi Zhuang region. Based on the proportions of the teeth, the team argue that at least one of them must have belonged to an early Homo sapiens (Quaternary International, doi.org/tz5).
The teeth are clearly old. Calcite crystals, which formed as water flowed over the teeth and the cave floor, date them to between 70,000 and 125,000 years ago. So Bae and Wang say they are evidence of an early wave of modern humans in eastern Asia.
But it is not clear that the teeth belong to modern humans. “I am not convinced that these teeth are diagnostic,” says Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. He says too little is known about how teeth evolved over the millennia in Asia.
However, other fossils are more convincing. Bones found in Israel, includingan upper jaw from Misliya cave, could be 150,000 years old. In China, Trinkaus was involved in the identification of a jawbone and two molars from Zhirendong, a cave in Guizhou province (PNAS, doi.org/fxbjgj). Though the bone is over 100,000 years old, Trinkaus’s team says the shape of its chin is suggestive of modern humans.
“There is solid evidence of modern humans at Tam Pa Ling [in Laos] around 50,000 or 60,000 years ago, and the Zhirendong mandible has modern features,” says Trinkaus. “So yes, modern humans were present in at least south-east Asia and south China by somewhere in this time range.”
Though the Asian fossils are Homo sapiens-like, another species could have evolved these features in parallel, says John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But he also doubts there was a single, rapid exodus 60,000 years ago.
A closer look at the genetics also suggests there was an earlier migration. Recently, Katerina Harvati of the University of Tubingen in Germany and her colleagues tested the classic “out of Africa at 60,000 years ago” story against the earlier-exodus idea. They plugged the genomes of indigenous populations from south-east Asia into a migration model. They found that the genetic data was best explained by an early exodus that left Africa around 130,000 years ago, taking a coastal route along the Arabian peninsula, India and into Australia, followed by a later wave along the classic route (see map) (PNAS, doi.org/tz6).
An early exit from Africa is still very much a minority view, says Chris Stringerat the Natural History Museum in London. But he says Harvati’s evidence has left him “open to the possibility”.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Humanity’s forgotten pioneers”
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Five most expensive Keuka listings top $1.6M
KEUKA LAKE (Sept. 18, 2012)—Keuka Lake offers a beautiful area to live, but lakefront property is a luxury not many people can afford. When luxury houses located right on the water go up for sale, their sale prices can often top a seven-figure sales number. Five of the lake’s most expensive homes currently listed range in price from $1,650,000 to $1,950,000. They include recently built structures to older houses on larger lots, but they all offer something unique to those looking to buy waterfront property in the area.
“Obviously the air gets a little thinner,” said realtor Mark Malcolm. “Buyers are out there looking and there is interest, but offers are not common.”
Malcolm said it usually takes longer to sell such expensive properties because there are not as many people who can afford them, and that the sense of urgency is not as great as it was in 2006.
Currently the most expensive waterfront property for sale on Keuka Lake is located at 6972 West Bluff Dr. in Jerusalem. The two story property was built in 2004 and is listed at $1,950,000. It has four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a total of 4,734 square feet.
The house rests on a six acre lot right on the lakefront and includes a hot tub, patio, three car garage and 10 total rooms.
The next most expensive lake front property for sale is at 14899 Keuka Village Road in Wayne. The $1,900,000 house, built in 2003, rests on a half acre lot, has three bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and a total area of 3,418 square feet. This house includes a finished walk out basement, boat docks with automated hoists, and an in-ground pool.
Third down the list includes 1073 East Lake Road in Barrington. Listed at $1,759,900, the two story house was built in 1927 with four bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms and a total area of 2,350 square feet. Sitting on a 3.4 acre lot, the house includes hardwood floors, a wood burning fireplace and a two car garage.
The next most expensive property is a wooded lot at 4188-4166 West Bluff Dr. in Jerusalem. Sitting on 84.3 acres of land, the $1,699,900 house was built in 1930 and includes four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a total area of 1,660 square feet. The house is listed at one story and includes an enclosed porch, wood burning stoves and hardwood floors.
The fifth most expensive property for sale on the lake is at 12262 West Lake Road in Pulteney. Listed at $1,650,000, the 4,232 square foot house includes two stories, four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Built in 1930, the house includes a hot tub, fireplace, hardwood floors and is located on a 1.3 acre wooded lot.
Out of the five most expensive houses, two of the top five properties listed have had their prices reduced. Malcolm said since there are fewer buyers in this price range, a softening in value and having no appreciation on Keuka Lake since 2007 has led to dropping prices in order to remain competitive.
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- 24 Hour Emergency Service
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At Payless Septic Sewer & Drain you get “Quality Without Question” at an affordable price! With over 30 years of experience in septic pumping and drainfield cleaning & repair, you can rest assured that the job will be done right the first time. This veteran owner and operated business located in Homosassa Florida services all of Citrus Levy, Marion, Hernando, and Sumter County.
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|A tribute to George Michael in Paradiso (Amsterdam), January 2017|
It's a cliche for a reason, because I really do remember the moment I heard about George Michael's death like it was yesterday. It was in the early hours of Boxing Day 2016 that I got the dreadful news. We were staying at a hotel, my wife had taken our little dog for a quick midnight walkies and upon return looked at her phone. George was all over the news of course. She woke me and said "Honey, George is dead" and promptly burst into tears. My own tears would only really start flowing a few days later, when the news finally sank in. That first night I just sighed deeply, sent a sad Whatsapp message to my friend and fellow George Michael fan Anne of GMNL and went on Facebook to share the news. My first posts didn't make any sense whatsoever as I was still in shock.
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When I try to log into the Datto Partner Portal via two-factor authentication and Google Voice, I do not get the confirmation call.
- Datto Partner Portal
- Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Check Google Voice settings
- In Google Voice account settings, make sure incoming calls are set to a phone number. If no phone number is set, the 2FA notification attempt will go straight to voice mail.
- Make sure the Screen Calls option is turned off in Google Voice. If this option is on, the call will go unanswered for too long, and you will not receive the token.
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There are millions of Internet-Servers daily hacked from the same hand full of Hackers.
Every Webmaster has the same problems with Hackers, Intruders, Attackers and Spammers, but nobody is fighting against these Terrorists.
Should that then go on forever?
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Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:10:10 GMT - Actual more as 21.000.000 Hackers in our Database. (The newest 100 are displayed on the Globe and Map)
Details for IP 22.214.171.124
WebServer Output: http://126.96.36.199
IP Geo Information: 188.8.131.52
☎ Whois 184.108.40.206
HTML Markup Validation 220.127.116.11
The Web Site Header: 18.104.22.168
Black Listed: 22.214.171.124
Ping to 126.96.36.199
Open Ports on 188.8.131.52
Geo-Location Information 184.108.40.206
Tor lookup for IP 220.127.116.11
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Trace a Route to 22.214.171.124
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Text and photos by Stacie Joy
It's very possible that you at least heard the "In the Air Tonight" car on East Village streets this holiday season — you know, the 1985 Mazda Rx-7 GSL with an arena-ready sound system that plays the 1981 Phil Collins mega-hit on repeat.
A mutual neighborhood friend led me to meet the car's owner — Don Garcia, a Bushwick-based plumber. We had questions for Garcia after the car was spotted in the East Village on Dec. 14... the subsequent EVG video clip was viewed nearly 120,000 times on Twitter ...
Saturday night is not over until the ‘In the Air Tonight’ mobile makes a dance stop pic.twitter.com/IB89cJRyVd— evgrieve (@evgrieve) December 15, 2019
The two men shown in the video were walking by, and spontaneously felt compelled to start dancing along to the song, featuring that epic drum break, now played at sports arenas around the world. (Gothamist has more on this dance story here.)
This holiday season, Garcia initially used the car — and its sound system — for a toy drive at the St Mary’s Healthcare System for Children. He does the Toys for Tots with the Legendary Muscle Cars Auto Club.
Garcia seemed surprised but appreciative of the attention. He answered some questions before letting me do a ride-along in the East Village as he demonstrated the newly wired sound system and lighting. And of course, playing "In the Air Tonight." (For the record, Garcia did not wear any ear plugs, though I did for this trip)...
How long have you been doing this?
I have had this car for seven years, working on it all that time. But as far as the music and lights part, I started [on Dec. 13] — the day before the videos surfaced.
Why this song?
I was playing this song because it’s such a good song to tune the car stereo and speakers to. It’s a song that makes you want to go out and do something you didn’t think you could. It was me and Lito, the guy who wired my car.
We’d been in Williamsburg earlier testing it out, and we were driving through the East Village when these two guys came out of a bar and requested, well demanded, that we put the song up loud, so we did. They jumped in front of the car and started dancing. We opened the doors at the light, pumped up the sound, and there were about 30 or 40 people standing there watching. When the song ended, we drove off.
Do you play any others?
Yes. I like rap, Spanish music, older stuff with no bad language. I like family-friendly stuff.
Any conversations with the NYPD?
Do you play the same song the entire time over and over?
It's a good song and has a clear sound. People will stop and look, especially at night when you can see the lights.
Garcia also said that he never gets tired of the song.
It was interesting to be in the passenger seat as we rolled through the neighborhood with lights flashing and the song pumping. Lot of bass, and, of course, the famous drum solo. People waved, they pointed, danced, smiled and gave us thumbs up. A lot of people whipped out their phones and started filming. I didn’t see anyone react negatively.
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Ongoing position available
Friendly working environment
Full-time (38 hours per week)
About the Role
We are very excited to announce that Melbourne Polytechnic is seeking to appoint an experienced, innovative and qualified individual to fill the position of Administrative Officer (Projects).
Your primary objectives will be to:
- Support the accreditation documentation and application submissions of the Learning and Teaching portfolio under the direction of the Director of Learning and Teaching.
- Provide support to the management of projects of the Learning and Teaching portfolio.
- Provide other high level administrative project support to the Centre as directed.
The successful applicant will possess the following:
Key Technical Competencies:
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of current regulatory requirements in the tertiary education sector, including Higher Education accreditation processes.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise and manage multiple activities and complex workloads with competing demands.
- Demonstrated understanding of quality assurance principles and procedures, incorporating precision, accuracy and attention to detail.
Qualification, Licenses and Experience
- Appropriate tertiary qualification and/or significant experience in coordination or project management support roles that clearly demonstrate the ability to perform in a complex environment within a tertiary education setting.
Please note that all short listed applicants will be required to undertake a variety of competency tests to demonstrate their ability to perform the role.
For a full list of the key technical competencies please refer to the position description.
The salary will be in the range of $59,620 - $62,156 (AO7.1- AO7.3) per annum plus superannuation.
Ongoing, Full- Time 38 hours per week
HOW TO APPLY
Please download a copy of the Position Description below. Read the Position Description carefully before beginning your application.
Your application must include the following:
- Current resume
- A separate document addressing the Key Technical Competencies and Qualification, Licenses and Experience as outlined in the position description
You can submit your application by email to ua.ud1493137233e.cin1493137233hcety1493137233lopen1493137233ruobl1493137233em@sb1493137233oj1493137233. Make sure you include the job title and the job reference number in your covering email.
PLEASE NOTE: To download the forms below you will need Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Pro. If you are experiencing any difficulties in submitting your application, please contact the People & Culture Department on 03 9269 1266.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply for positions with Melbourne Polytechnic.
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Ladies’ Long Sleeve T-Shirt - Life Is But A Dream with Transmutation Mandela
This women's long sleeve shirt has Teach Peace written on the back and features the energy-infused mandela for transmutation with 'Life is but a dream' sitting on top like a cherry! Created and infused for this store alone.
This soft cotton t-shirt with a fashionable contoured silhouette will keep you warm and comfortable. Perfect for work, weekends, or chilly evenings.
• 100% combed ringspun cotton
• 30 singles thread weight
• Side seams for a fitted look
• Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
Created and designed by Artist and Master Healer, Lynda Lichti.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No reproductions of any kind are permitted without the expressed and written consent of the creator.
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This blog is intended to help the frugal family. I am a thrifty housewife and spend a large amount of my time in an effort to spend less money while still enjoying the things we love the most. Here I will share any wisdom I come across.
I love to cook and try new recipes all the time. I prefer cheap meals that are also healthy. My goal is to plan meals that are about $1 per person. Recipes may frequently involve chocolate.
I am always on the look out for tightwad ideas to help pinch those pennies. I like to find coupons and deals that match our lifestyle.
I am interested in reducing waste, repurposing and upcycling. We practice voluntary simplicity in many ways.
I will share some budget and money saving tips. This includes conscious spending, where you put more deliberation into purchases.
I like to find free fun for the family, kid crafts, and recipes for cooking with kids. We do have a resident one year old so some posts will involve babyhood.
I celebrate just about every holiday I can find, with a serious love of Christmas.
I may occasionally devolve into randomness, and post sparkly things, pretties, and neat things.
I am no tiger mom, I am a regular homemaker just doing the best I can.
I came to frugality the hard way. With few female role models growing up I had little example of how to manage money or a household. I was a happy housewife of a successful man, and did not manage the finances. My pretty little head whipped up processed foods and bought furniture on credit. An abrupt change in circumstances forced me to not only take over the finances for our household, but do it on next to nothing. A foreclosure and a short period of homelessness later I was learning how to scrape and scrimp and feed my family on a budget comparable to food stamps. Oodles of learning later, and painful trial and error, I am managing my house in a style somewhat like I think my grandmother did, only with a lot more internet research. I am now a much more capable person, and a conscientious consumer. Along the way I have learned that you are as content as you want to be and all you have to do is choose it.
Melissa, The More With Less Mom
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We would like to invite you to 18th Film Festival of Faculty of Informatics MU.
Like every year there will be screening of short films from Masaryk University students as well as graduates. It is held under the auspices of prof. RNDr. Jiří Zlatuška, CSc., dean of Faculty of Informatics. You can look forward mainly to films which were made by students who attend two-semester Film language course at Faculty of Informatics. The contestants have a chance to win in two categories - The prize of the Jury and The prize of the Audience. That is why your vote might also decide who wins!
The motto for this year is „Colour yourself“, which means not just to be brave to show your true self when you reach your adulthood, but mainly the process of creative thinking, coming into light, the stream of thoughts, ideas, and innovation of your creations. And that is needed to make short films which we are going to present at our festival.
The festival screening will take place on 18th of May 2018, 19:30 at two locations simultaneously - at Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University and the University Cinema Scala. English subtitles will be available only at the Faculty of Informatics. After the festival finishes, you can join us on afterparty which is going to take place at Mors Art club.
Entry is free.
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Taking Off with 3D Printing
We have recently been contacted by Jonatan Domènech Arboleda, a student from the School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (part of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain). Jonatan has just completed a remarkable project, a 100% 3D printed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) also known as the Barcelona UAV.
Keen to share his creation with other 3D printing enthusiasts, Jonatan reached out to us. Looking at the UAV project in more detail quickly made us realize that this project would be worth sharing with our audience. The UAV is not only a nice piece of engineering but also an excellent demonstration of what 3D printers are already capable of today. Jonatan did all his 3D prints on a RepRap using PLA filament. No fancy materials or industrial type 3D printers.
We hope that sharing this 3D printing project will open a few eyes when it comes to the capabilities of 3D printers and maybe inspire a few readers to start similar ambitious projects.
Here is what Jonatan has to say about his project:
1. What Led You to Develop the 3D Printed UAV?
The idea to develop the 3D printed UAV came originally from Jordi Santacana, the director of CATUAV (a local company specialized in UAV aerial imaging). In the summer of 2013 he participated at a Silicon Valley conference on 3D printing and came back to Barcelona with the idea of adapting this technology for UAV applications.
It was the mix of a dedicated student, the University environment and entrepreneurship that made it possible to develop the 1st 100% 3D printed UAV in Barcelona. On a global scale this only the 2nd 3D printed UAV in Europe and the 5th in the world.
The study demonstrated the feasibility of using rapid manufacturing technology, more specifically consumer 3D printing, in Unmanned Air Vehicle design.
The Barcelona UAV has been designed with Autodesk software, 3D printed with PLA material on a RepRap BCN 3D+. Table 1 shows its final specifications.
Table 1: Barcelona 3D printed UAV specifications
The major aim of the project was to obtain the best weight performance of any UAV design. Comparing the Barcelona UAV with the reference UAVs and the best weight performance technology currently available (high density foam such as used in the Multiplex Easy Star II RC plane) it becomes clear how successful this project has been:
Table 2: Referenced UAV comparative results to Barcelona UAV
Figure 1: Comparative graphic between referenced UAV
The Advanced Manufacturing Research Center of the University of Sheffield, and BOEING developed a 3D printed UAV (see Figure 2) that has the 2nd best weight performance, but it is a flying wing glider. Taking into account that the other references have been evaluated including the engine weight, VAST AUAV or SULSA can be considered as having the 2nd best weight performance.
Figure 2: AMRC 3D printed UAV
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory, developed the so-called VAST AUAV in 2013 (see Figure 3). This project was co-sponsored by the US Air Force and RAPID 3D IMAGING. This interesting UAV has a carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) fuselage beam. It is therefore safe to assume that if VAST was 100% 3D printed, it would be heavier than it is with its current mixed technology design. This leaves the SULSA as having the 2nd best weight performance in the balanced comparison of the weight performance for existing 100% 3D printed UAVs.
Figure 3: VAST AUAV
SULSA was developed by the University of Southampton, a UAV that is the 1st 3D printed plane and the 2nd best weight performance in the world. SULSA, with 6.174,68 € budget, has been sponsored by a UK-based 3D-printing firm, 3T RPD2.
Figure 4: SULSA
The Barcelona UAV has only 28% of SULSA’s weight and taking into account the wingspan, it is 37% of SULSA’s weight/wingspan ratio which underlines the amazing result of this project.
In order to compare the Barcelona UAV with the MULTIPLEX Easy Star II (an entry level model airplane), it is necessary to compare the ratio of the weight / total span (wing + fuselage) because of the similar sizes, see Table 3.
Table 3: Barcelona UAV comparison with the best weight performance in traditional technology
The Barcelona 3D printed UAV has the same weight performance than injection technology of high density foam, ELAPRON®. Since this evaluation has balanced the alternatives, the fuselage, wing and tail cost have been compared in order to tiebreaker them.
The Multiplex Easy Star II costs 78.90€, including taxes but excluding avionics. The Barcelona UAV costs 18.63€, including taxes and energy cost but excluding the RepRap BCN 3D+ printer cost. Taking into account that RepRap has a 3D printing service in the Barcelona UPC Campus with a cost of 0.12 €/cm3, the cost of producing the Barcelona UAV is 44.71€, including taxes. Therefore the Barcelona UAV cost is only 57% that of the Easy Star II.
This is an amazing result of this project because it demonstrates the feasibility of 3D printing technology in UAV applications. This document has demonstrates that the 3D printing service of the Barcelona UPC Campus is the best option for 7 or less units and in case of more than 7 units of the 3D printed UAV the best option is to buy your own low cost 3D printer.
2. How Did You Design the UAV? Did You Have to Learn Any New 3D Modeling Skills?
The Barcelona 3D printed UAV has been designed using Autodesk software, with a student license. You need such a powerful software in order to fully apply your knowledge. Having a clear target also greatly helps to sharpen your 3D modeling skills. For this project the target has always been to design a new UAV design, in view of manufacturing it using 3D printing technology.
Over time, I tested various CAD software. Today, I find AUTOCAD, INVENTOR and 3DS MAX to be useful design tools, since each has a great community of users that you can learn from to further develop your own skills.
CAD skills alone were not sufficient for this project though. The complete design cycle includes thinking, selecting, manufacturing, testing and reiterating. I had to apply the full breadth of my know-how to build the UAV:
- Aircraft design, in order to design the UAV.
- C++ programming, in order to optimize firmware configuration and G-Code parameters to obtain the high performance required for this specific application.
- Statistics, in order to analyze the results of the printing in function of the configured parameters. More precisely, the weight in function of the Z axis height and printing speed.
- Fluid mechanics, in order to analyze the deposition behavior of the fused material from the 3D printing process and to design cooling requirements for PLA parts in contact with the engine.
- Materials science, in order to compute structural requirements for the used materials and sizing the design.
- Flight mechanics, in order to compute the operational requirements for the remote control of the UAV.
- DIY skills, in order to join parts and assembly the UAV.
3. What 3D Printer and what Material Did You Use to Print the Parts of the UAV?
Compared to the overall size of the UAV, the build volume of the RepRap BCN 3D+ is relatively small. Therefore, wings and fuselage had to be printed in sections that were then assembled to form the full size UAV. I experimented with various joining or welding techniques and ended up using a heat welding process. Using a standard soldering iron and left-over PLA material, I was able to join the different sections. As it turns out, the molten PLA distributed evenly into the joints, giving the bond a very high tensile strength.
A Few Thoughts on Materials
In my opinion, materials research will contribute to the most important developments in 3D printing over the coming years. Materials with different flexibility, mechanical properties, color and recyclability will be soon available for 3D printing users.
With the proliferation of dual extruder 3D printers, material flexibility will constitute an important development since this will allow for the creation of anisotropic parts. The possibility of 3D printing a blade using root flexibility for the first material and tip flexibility for the second and a controlled mix of them along the longitudinal axis, will become an improvement for fluid mechanic engineering.
Mechanical properties of the material can be modified by adding CF nanotubes or similar reinforcements. Nowadays there are already ABS materials with high mechanical properties. The minimum perimeter thickness, near 500 μm, and the maximum part size of 3D printing technology are still the main limitations. Therefore improving the Young modulus or stiffness of 3D printing materials will lead to new applications.
Color of the filament is an interesting feature for 3D printers with multi extruders because RGB or CYMK basic colors can be mixed to generate any color tone. This feature will increase 3D printing applications.
To my mind, recyclability is the most important performance for 3D printing technology for the simple reason that it allows users to have a lower cost rapid manufacturing tool. When prototyping you always generate waste and unused parts. Having the possibility to recycle this waste material would be desirable both from a cost and environmental point of view.
For the Barcelona UAV I used PLA, a biodegradable material. I believe this is essential for any applications where parts may go lost outside. Still, even with PLA you have to careful since its biodegradability also depends on the properties of the additives used in manufacturing the filament.
4. Could You Have Developed the UAV Without 3D Printing?
No, this would not have been feasible with standard technologies since many of the UAV parts constitute complex shapes that would either have been too costly or even impossible to mold.
5. What Did You Learn About 3D Printing by Working Through This Project?
3D printing constitutes the 3rd Industrial revolution. In the future, consumers will buy .stl files via the internet and print their objects at home or via a 3D printing service. This will affect traditional industries, supply chains, distribution and employment in totally new ways. Therefore, 3D printing technology must be analyzed and understood from a global and not only a local point of view.
Compared to other rapid manufacturing systems, 3D printing technology is a low cost way of transferring things from the world of the ideas to the real one. Therefore, 3D printer device selection played an important role in my project. The main requirements were cost, multi material availability, double extrusion capability, open-source philosophy and supplier proximity. The aforementioned performance requirements allow a designer to create something economically feasible, while using new materials and mixing different material properties to customize parts to very specific requirements. Firmware configuration is also important in order to improve the technology for a given specific application.
In order to test a new system’s power and limitations you always need a bit of respect and a will to test things out. Respect is required since the 3D printer is not a toy and it constitutes an important device in the design cycle. Testing is required since this is the only way to completely understand the full depth of the technology that you have at your finger tips.
The project also made me understand the direct relationship between time, weight and cost. 3D printing is the only technology where investing time in weight reduction has a direct impact on cost reduction and manufacturing time reduction. Traditional technologies increase cost in function of the weight and manufacturing time reduction.
Last but not least, I learned a ton about joining 3D printed parts as this played an important role in assembling the UAV prototypes. As build volumes of 3D printers are still relatively small, the UAV had to be printed in sections which were then joined.
6. Based on What You Know About 3D Printing Now, Where Do You See the Biggest Limitations and Greatest Opportunities?
The biggest limitation is the PLA material because of its stiffness, mechanical properties and its density. New PLA materials with specific properties must be developed while maintaining the biodegradability.
The biggest opportunity I see is that a design can be digitally distributed and 3D printed anywhere in the world thereby giving you access to a worldwide network of beta testers. Anyone with a 3D printer and 0.5 kg of PLA can manufacture their own homemade UAV.
7. What’s Next for the 3D Printed UAV?
Since the completion of the Barcelona UAV project, I have been thinking about the following development and improvements:
- The use of conductive materials. Using a 3D printer with a dual extruder, one could imagine printing the UAV wings and fuselage of one material while using conductive material to print the wiring required for the avionics.
- Anisotropic parts, because propeller blades or wings could be designed with specific flexing behavior according to aerodynamic optimization.
- Specific Infill for lightweight parts, because the existing patterns are only focused on support material and mechanical properties. This study has designed a lattice 3D honeycomb interesting for this development.
- An advanced joining system, because the UAV requires parts joining and heat welding is a simple technology. This new system must be a heat technology able to be configured by temperature adjustment and surface selection, inside or outside the slices.
I am currently finishing my studies and while I have no concrete plans for the future of the 3D printed UAV yet, I sure think about it.
By the way, upon graduation I’ll be looking for a nice job!
You can find more information on the 3D Printed UAV project on its Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101621941783722657636/posts
In case you want to try your hand at printing your own UAV, Jonatan has made all the files available on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:334271
Do you have any questions or feedback about the 3D printed UAV project? If so, please let us know by leaving a comment below. In case you have your own 3D printing project that you would like to be featured here on the blog, don’t hesitate to get in touch!
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You must have heard about individuals moving from small cities and other metropolitan cities to Bangalore. This is a place where people can find large number of medical colleges, management colleges, engineering colleges etc. Thus, people willing to enroll in medical colleges in Bangalore will get wide option. The tertiary education system which deals with teaching medicine to students is known as medical college. If you have bright academic background and wish to work hard in the process of study, Medical colleges in Bangalore will always welcome you to get an enrolment.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Jenna McCarthy's lazy days of summer...plus a book giveaway
Jenna McCarthy is an internationally published writer, TED speaker, former radio personality and the author of several books including the brand new I’ve Still Got It, I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It: Awkwardly True Tales from the Far Side of Forty (published July 1st). Her work has appeared in more than sixty magazines, on dozens of web sites and in several anthologies including the popular Chicken Soup series. (She doesn’t like to brag, but her TED talk on marriage currently has more than two million views.) Jenna likes it when you like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter. You can read about the time she was escorted out of her office by a cop and see her in the bathtub by visiting her website. Check out her pictures on Instagram, as well!
Thanks to Berkley (Penguin), we have FIVE copies of Jenna's latest book for some lucky US readers!
Favorite thing about summer:
I love so much about summer (long days, cooking/eating outside, beach afternoons, hot dogs, fake tans, floppy hats, flip-flops, white pants, out of town company), but I’d probably have to say my favorite thing is eleven whole weeks of not having to bitch at my kids to do their homework.
Favorite summertime food: Mangos
Favorite amusement park: I am not a fan of amusement parks. I guess Wet-N-Wild is okay in the summer, if you don’t mind paying $300 so your family can swim in a giant toilet.
Favorite outdoor activity in the summer:
Is drinking margaritas considered an activity?
Favorite place to get ice cream:
Those little drop-in freezers that sell giant frozen Snickers and chocolate-chip-cookie ice cream sandwiches the size of your head. I rarely order a cone or a cup when I take my kids to an ice cream shop (I swear to God I almost wrote ice cream parlor, obviously because I’m old), but I can’t resist those damned freezers.
Thanks to Jenna for chatting with us and to Berkley for sharing her book with our readers!
~Introduction by Melissa Amster
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Masking can seem like a "simple" process that is often accomplished with masking tape slit to common widths and applied by hand to protect surfaces from paint, contamination, or damage. Similar to surface protection tapes, masking materials are often discarded long before the final product reaches the customer. So what benefits are seen by changing from rolls of tape to die-cuts specific for your application?
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Can someone please explain me why a family of unbounded functions from N to N is uncountable?
Thank you very much!
Last edited by Also sprach Zarathustra; November 23rd 2012 at 04:11 AM.
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Because there is an injection from to the set of unbounded functions.
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Experience from over 20 leading companies that have tested the product carbon footprinting method PAS 2050
Publication date: October 2008
Information in this report was correct at the time of publication
Publication date: 29/10/2008
Since 2006 the Carbon Trust has worked with companies to measure, reduce and communicate carbon emissions across the supply chain, as part of our broader efforts to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy.
When we began there was no consistent, practical method for measuring the carbon footprint of products (goods or services), yet it is essential information for companies to identify the true drivers of emissions and reduction opportunities and to inform customers of the carbon content of their products.
This publication summarises the experience from over 20 leading companies that have tested the product carbon footprinting method (PAS 2050), contributed to the development of the Code of Good Practice on Emissions and Reduction Claims and the subset of companies that have decided to communicate their product footprints to customers. Working with these companies we have learned important lessons about the impact product carbon footprinting and labelling can have on businesses' commercial and environmental goals, and how relevant, applicable and practical the approach can be.
Also linked to this publication are a range of case studies illustrating companies' experience in more detail - why they wanted to measure product carbon emissions, how they went about it, what they achieved and their plans for the future. We hope other businesses will build on this experience and leverage the PAS 2050 and related tools to capture the business opportunities associated with this approach.
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While the Patriots defense received the brunt of the criticism after Friday night’s preseason shootout against Philly, a 42-35 Pats win, running back Stevan Ridley will get his fair share of negative feedback this week.
The fourth year running back has shown flashes of brilliance during his Foxboro tenure, but his fumbling issues don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Ridley coughed up the football again in the preseason game against Philly. The miscue came on his seventh carry of the night and occurred in the red zone.
“We always talk about ball-security,” Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said this past weekend. “Taking care of the ball, there’s nothing that correlates more to winning and losing than the turnovers so that’s always a high priority for us. We never want the ball out.”
Ridley has been benched by Belichick for stretches during the regular season and postseason in the past for his ball control issues as he has had eight fumbles over the past two seasons.
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ForJam Media is the home of Composer and Producer, John Forbes. With over 25 years in the entertainment industry, John has made music for some of the most successful companies in the world. With a wealth of knowledge that comes from hundreds of productions, adding value has become more than a cliche, it's a mantra. From scoring music for film and television, to radio and the web, John Forbes has a track record of success and the respect of his peers.
"Evrything in the universe has a feel."
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In an effort to get things rolling in a startup, one has to wrestle with the realization that your model is only as good as your word. In my life's work in music, I have watched the industry turn into something that looks a certain way, without ever having to be a certain way. What I mean to say is that credibility and authenticity have given way to the illusion of something without the merit achieved from working hard to master a skill, and then giving that skill to humanity in it's purest form.
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Poizner said at a press conference that Whitman campaign strategist Mike Murphy issued "crystal-clear" threats to his staff in an attempt to effectively "cancel the election" by pushing him to drop out of the race.
"This is not an attempt to be hardball and to be aggressive, but this is an attempt to effectively manipulate the election process, the integrity of the election process, by issuing these threats behind the scenes to get me not to run," he said.
The campaign provided a copy of an e-mail in which Murphy asks an unidentified Poizner campaign consultant if there is any chance Poizner, who is trailing Whitman in the polls and in campaign funds, will reconsider his run.
The e-mail, provided by the campaign to reporters and in a letter to law enforcement officials, says the Whitman camp can spend $40 million "tearing up Steve if we must."
"I hate the idea of us each spending $20 million beating on the other in the primary, only to have a damaged nominee," Murphy wrote, according to the e-mail.
In the e-mail, Murphy offers that the campaign could "unite the entire party behind Steve right now to build a serious race" for U.S. Senate in 2012.
In a letter sent to the FBI, U.S. Attorneys Office, Fair Political Practices Commission and state Attorney General Jerry Brown, Poizner also claims Murphy told a senior adviser that the campaign would "put (Poizner) through the wood chipper" if he did not drop out of the race.
In a statement issued this afternoon Murphy acknowledged that he had spoken to Poizner consultants about the viability of the insurance commissioner's gubernatorial bid, but charactarized the accusations made as "ridiculous charges."
"[A]ll I can say is that I'm starting to worry about Commissioner's mental condition," he said in the statement, adding: "Hopefully the Commissioner was not serious about wasting taxpayer dollars by asking state and federal authorities to waste their time on such a silly matter of perfectly legal politics."
Poizner said he "absolutely, positively" plans to remain in the race.
"Maybe these kinds of threats, maybe that works on some people, unfortunately, but it won't work on me," he said.
Click here to read Poizner's letter.
*This post was updated at 1:24 p.m. with Murhy's response.
VIDEO: Steve Poizner holds a news conference this morning where he said a Whitman campaign official issued threats to his staff. Credit: Hector Amezcua/Sacramento Bee.
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In China, from 2012, the haze become a topic of concern for most in life.Blue Sky disappeared, got us into a deep thought. Our own way break harmonious environment. Harmony means the balance between all things. So as to balance for the idea, we think about the design.Everything on earth comprises Yin and Yang (two kinds of opposite qi in traditional Chinese culture), which integrate with each other to form a new qi called He . In Chinese the He means balance and harmony. The works uses block insertion, complementary form to create a balanced, harmonious image.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
It's CADR is 200m3/h, so it is suitable for using in 40 square space. It's sensor can sense the air particles 1 micron in size. The efficient HEPA filters effectively filter dust (PM2.5). The odor sensor can greatly improve the sensitivity of identification of harmful gases in the air. Through active carbon and photo catalysis effect, further adsorption, catalysis of formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds in the air.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
Through the top of the touch interface, users can easily operate the machine. In front of machine, red, green, and blue light show, suggesting that the current indoor air quality. Red suggests bad air, green suggested that the air is good, blue suggests that air is excellent.Through WIFI, users can use mobile phones to control the machine.For example, when you are on the way home, you can use your mobile phone to the remote turn on your machine, when you come home, home air purification is ready
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
The project started in April 2012 in Hangzhou and finished in August 2013 in Ningbo.In 2013, we can buy it on the market
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY:
Home Appliances Design
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
In 2013, the product launch. In China, the annual production of 200,000 units per year.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
Width 400 mm x Depth 250 mm x Height 650 mm
Simple, Efficiency, Metaphor, Easy to operate, Smart
Through research, Chinese major atmospheric pollutants is PM2.5. In addition, users on indoor air smell, formaldehyde removal there is also a big demand. So can effectively solve the most painful demands, is the key to this product.
By a specific laboratory working in confined spaces, to inject a specific amount of smoke (mainly PM2.5). Open the machine, start the clock, room cleaning is completed, we can accurately measure the machine decontamination units of time spent in space, this is one method of measuring the performance of the machine.
Shape design and structure design are the most difficult.Shape needs to reflect our design intent, but need to look simple.Once you have the design,the structural engineer needs to be realized through the ingenious structure.The engineer needs to reach a reasonable amount of cost control,ease of production and Assembly.
TEAM MEMBERS (1) :
Structural engineer Jialin An
Tiezhu Wu, 2015.
Patented. Patent No. ZL 2014 3 0020249.X
Patent Holder: ZHE JIANG JIN ELITE PROSPEROUS CO.,LTD
Jurisdiction: appearance patent China
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PONNI RICE (Chemical Free Ponni Bioled Rice)
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Most people know Tom Colicchio from his role as head judge on the Bravo reality show Top Chef, but I’ve been following this chef since his days at New York’s Gramercy Tavern, and consider him one of the smartest people I’ve ever met in a kitchen.
His landmark cookbook, Think Like a Chef, published in 2000, takes home cooks through a series of steps to help them construct recipes—simple, clean and organic. And at his MGM Grand restaurant, Craftsteak, you compose your own dinner from lists of appetizers, meats, side dishes and vegetables, served family-style.
Colicchio’s eagerly awaited new restaurant at The Mirage, Heritage Steak, veers off in a different direction, though. Here, most of the work is done for you, on a menu made up of dishes that are already thought through, most of them colorful, intelligent and inviting.
Your initial impression might be one of familiarity. The restaurant’s design, by the firm Bentel & Bentel, will remind you of Craftsteak: a parquet floor; mahogany panels that separate the vast, open space from the greenery of The Mirage’s atrium; wooden tables; Chilewich placemats sitting in for table linens; and chic Bernardaud porcelain plate ware.
That’s red oak stacked high by the open kitchen, where antibiotic- and hormone-free meats are cooked over open flames. Executive chef Anthony Zappola told me red oak was chosen because it burns hotter and longer, without imparting aggressive flavors in the manner of mesquite and hickory. Colicchio clearly wants to emphasize ingredients, not obscure them. You generally taste what you are eating at a Colicchio restaurant.
An appetizer of grilled octopus—beautifully tender, gently charred—is gorgeous, paired with charred leek, potato, roasted peppers and Romesco, a Catalan sauce that is red, grainy and addictive, referred to on the menu as “almonds”! Maybe Colicchio doesn’t want to confuse us. Thanks, Tom, but we can handle the truth.
The de facto Caesar here is an artist’s palette of grilled Romaine and endive, soft farm egg and white anchovy dressing, pretty enough to frame. Wood-roasted peaches come with slices of Iberico ham and a flurry of arugula, a heavenly conceit. There are about 15 appetizers in all, including a number of soy-chili glazed skewers: squab, duck, skirt steak, chicken wings and more.
Main courses are composed dishes as well, unless you order a Heritage Steak, which will come with what are called peewee potatoes—small, halved potatoes cooked in duck fat (which I wish was more apparent). My roasted chicken was magnificently done in the classic French style, meaning laced with a rich brown demi-glace, and then brought back to America with spicy onion rings and a delicious summer bean gratin.
The only steak I tried, Tabasco-pepper Kobe skirt, was also excellent, though I wanted to taste more Tabasco. The kitchen here generally errs on the side of bland, so as to be safe, I’m guessing. Two sides—a genius creamless creamed sweet corn cooked down to a pudding-like texture, and a workmanlike roasted eggplant—rounded things out.
But some things need to be tweaked. Grilled lamb ribs, for instance, are rubbed with vadouvan, a trendy south Indian spice mixture, masking the flavor of the lamb to a degree. I couldn’t help wondering if this was intentional. Americans don’t embrace lamb the way other countries do, and spices hide the gaminess.
Don’t miss the mascarpone panna cotta for dessert, topped with fig, raspberry, pistachio nuts and other goodies. And expect crack service from a team that feels as experienced as any on the Strip—a near miracle for a new restaurant.
In The Mirage, 791-7111. Dinner 5-10:30 p.m. daily. Dinner for two, $125-$190.
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Charlie is a self-taught photographer from Houston, Texas. He began learning to photograph by shooting musicians at local concert venues in Austin while attending the University of Texas. He later worked as a staff photographer for The Daily Texan newspaper where he won a Society of Professional Journalists “Mark of Excellence” award. His photography has since taken him from the streets of São Paulo, Brazil to the sugar cane fields of Nicaragua, while his work has ranged from black and white photo documentaries to color abstracts. He lives in Austin, Texas.
2011 “Wasted Expressions”, L Nowlin Gallery, Austin, TX.
2009 “Street Impressions”, Vaughan Christopher Gallery, Houston, TX.
2003 “Morador de Rua”, Projex Gallery, Austin, TX.
2003 “Avenida Paulista: Street Level”, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
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NEW YORK — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued a Philip Morris Cos. employee and two stockbrokers for insider trading stemming from Philip Morris' $13.1-billion takeover of Kraft Inc. in 1988.
According to the suit, the employee learned about the secret merger while checking the company's boardroom for bugging devices after a weekend meeting where the tender offer was discussed.
He then tipped off two stockbrokers, and the three made profits of about $334,000.
The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, names Anthony Morelli, 52, of Englishtown, N.J., director of Philip Morris' Headquarters Services in New York; his son-in-law, Frank Petrone, 29, of Berkeley Heights, N.J., and James Zanengo, 30, also of Berkeley Heights.
Petrone and Zanengo had been stockbrokers at the Millburn, N.J., firm Rickel & Associates at the time of the alleged illegal trades.
The suit alleges that Morelli learned about the takeover and passed the information to Petrone, who then bought Kraft securities. Petrone, it is claimed, then passed the tip to his friend and co-worker Zanengo, who purchased securities for himself and told others about the pending deal.
A Philip Morris spokeswoman said the company had no comment on the case.
The SEC is asking the court to force Morelli to repay $104,271; Petrone, $211,108, and Zanengo, $184,430, representing illegal profits made by them and others who traded on the tips.
The commission is also seeking an order forcing them to pay civil penalties equal to three times the illegal trading profits.
According to the suit, Morelli had been asked to provide a meeting room and food services for 20 Philip Morris executives during the weekend of Oct. 15-16, 1988.
He participated in a security sweep of the executive floors the day before the meeting occurred, and then checked the boardroom Oct. 17 for listening devices.
He learned of the merger through discussions with another Philip Morris employee during the security check and then told the stockbrokers.
The merger was not announced until Oct. 30., 1988.
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Republicans have a three-step plan to try to protect Donald Trump from facing the consequences of collaborating with the Russians.
Step 1: Deny that it happened (c.f. "Witch hunt")
Step 2: When there is evidence that it happened deny the evidence (c.f. "Fake news")
Step 3: When the evidence becomes undeniable, deny that it was ever a big deal.
To those currently implementing step 3, I pose the following question: if it was never a big deal, why bother with steps 1 and 2? Why not just come right out and admit it from the beginning rather than attempt to cover it up? Enquiring minds want to know.
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|Manley Labs Snapper Monoblock Amplifiers Review|
|Home Theater Power Amplifiers Mono Amplifiers|
|Written by Andre Marc|
|Wednesday, 25 August 2010|
Page 2 of 2
Before rocking out, during the several weeks I spent with the Snappers, I was in the mood to exploit the textural side of the Manley sound. I played a bunch of Tim Buckley discs. Blue Afternoon features vibes, acoustic guitar, jazzy Les Paul fills, and of course Buckley's god like voice on such devastating cuts as "Blue Melody", "I Must Have Been Blind", and "The River". I literally felt surrounded by the musicians. I often lean towards 1960's minimalist recordings that emphasize performances rather than studio trickery or cut and paste approaches. The Snappers bring you there with these types of albums. More examples include some exotic pop from guitarist Gabor Szabo, recorded in the late sixties, where I could have sworn the guitar amplifier was in one corner of the room, and the drummer in the door. Spooky,.
I also played a ton of music off of my Squeezebox, through a CIA VDA-2 DAC. I have gigs of live soundboard concert recordings. I grooved to a lot of live Grateful Dead, U2, Rolling Stones, and much more. I felt like I was at the mixing board. Listening sessions like these, are what allows Manley to proclaim Tubes Rule, because in many instances, they just do. One thing I should note is that the Snappers did not produce nearly as much heat as I expected. They were not doubling as space heaters, like a few other tube, - and even solid state - amps I have had.
In all of my time with the Snappers, the bias did not drift at all on any of the output tubes. Always a good sign of good engineering and careful tube selection. Also, I really did not do any audiophile fiddling, with fancy after- market support cones or devices, or expensive power cords. The reasonably priced Shunyata’s did the trick. I might also note that tube rolling is our prerogative. Manley provides information about this on their website, and they will gladly take your call if you have any questions. I should add the manual is very enjoyable to read, with tons of information, advice, and interesting notes.
The raging debate that never seems to end in high performance audio is that of value. That may be because there are so many over priced products in our hobby, and disproportionately so when compared to other specialty hobbies. Manley is one of those companies that generally never enters that conversation. From my experience, they provide extreme value considering they make hand- assembled audio products in Chino, (not China), offer excellent warranties, customer advice, service, and most importantly, their gear sounds terrific.
The Snapper mono block amps, at $4,250 per pair, are an easy recommendation. What you get is real 100 watts per channel, great bass control, superb mids, and great, clean highs, with low noise, in a rugged retro cool chassis. And a word on power, another point of endless debate among audiophiles. Some get hung up in ratings ignore common sense. I would say that for one not to have more than enough juice using the Snappers, you would have to have either an absolutely huge room, extremely current-hungry speakers, or you are very unrealistic in your listening levels.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. If you are in the market for a tube amp, can accommodate mono blocks, and want hassle- free, great sound, arrange an audition at a local dealer. Why you would pass up this great- sounding amplifier for something far more expensive made in Europe or Japan, is beyond me. You will pay more for less, and then it’s "good luck" with support if you should need it. Yes, I strongly believe that American specialty manufacturing should be supported. Not simply for the sake of it, but because they beat the competition. Manley Labs is also a dominant player in the high- end pro audio market, and has been in a leader in that industry for decades providing excellent value and performance. Their hifi gear offers the same, and then some.
Input Impedance RCA: 475 Kohm
Input Impedance XLR: 15 Kohm
Input Sensitivity RCA: 750mV input = 110W output
Input Sensitivity XLR @ 15Kohms: 1.5 V input = 110W output
Input Sensitivity XLR @ 600ohms: 2.4 V input = 110W output (w/600ohm source)
Maximum Output Power into 5 ohms: 110 Watts (1.5% THD @ 1kHz)
Maximum Output Power into 8 ohms: 100 Watts (1.5% THD @ 1kHz)
Signal to Noise Ratio Ref. 1W: Typically 90 dB A-WGT 20-20K
Dynamic Range: 98dB
Recommended Speaker Load: Optimized for 5 ohms
Actual Output Impedance: 1.5 ohms
Power Consumption (idle): 170 Watts (1.4A @120VAC)
Power Consumption (at Full Power 110W): 336 Watts (2.8A @120VAC)
Input Vacuum Tube: 1 x 12AX7 Russian with 6CA7 output tubes; use 12AT7EH large plate Electro-Harmonix Russian with EL34 types
Driver Vacuum Tube: 1 x 7044 or 5687 GE JAN NOS
Output Vacuum Tubes: 4 x 6CA7 (or EL34 equivalent)
Dimensions: 15" deep x 13" wide x 8.75" tall
Shipping weight each: 45 pounds
Price: $4,250 per pair
Manley Laboratories, Inc.
13880 Magnolia Ave.
Chino, CA 91710 USA
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Laurinburg, NC Roofing, Gutters, Siding, and Garage Doors
If you live in Laurinburg and your home needs some work, fill out the contact form below or give us a call and we’ll be in touch right away to discuss your needs. We know home repairs can be a daunting thing to face, so our goal is to put you at ease and give you all the information you need to make an informed decision about your repairs. You may want to hire a professional (call us or fill out the contact form on the website) or you may decide to attempt the job on your own. Either way, you’ll find information on this page that should help you estimate the cost for a new roof, gutters, garage doors and siding. Do your research and then let us know if you would like some help – we’ll be glad to talk!
If you know your home needs an entirely new roof, you’re looking at an average cost in Laurinburg of a little more than $8,000. Most homeowners will spend between $5,000 and $11,000, with a low of a little more than $2,000 and a high of $14,000. Costs vary because homes vary. The same square footage of roof may be more costly on home than another simply because of the pitch of the roof – the steeper the roof, the more time and materials it will take for a new installation. A ranch-style roof is straightforward and simple, so it’s less expensive. A Colonial-style home may have a few slopes, but still shouldn’t be too hard. A Tudor-style home, though may have steep slopes and many eaves, which make it a more difficult project that will cost more. The average time to complete a roofing job (including tearing out the old and installing new shingles) is 3-4 days, depending on the size of the home and the size of the crew on the job. Feel free to call us to get an estimate on your roofing project – we’ll help you determine exactly what you need.
The average cost to install new siding for a Laurinburg home is a little more than $9,700, with most homeowners paying out between $6,927 and $12,534 for the whole job. At an average cost of $400, siding repair work is much more affordable. Most homeowners spend in a range between $212 and $587 for repair work.
The best repairs occur when you have leftover siding from the original installation. If the siding has been exposed to the elements for a few years, though, the original pieces may not match anymore. If this is a problem, try replacing the damaged area with siding panels from a less visible part of the home and then putting the non-matching siding where not as many people will see it.
A new product in residential siding is called Cement Fiber. It’s durable, low maintenance and is made from recycled materials. You can install cement fiber in complex configuration and patterns, although you will have to pay about an additional 10% for materials and installation.
Gutters on your home aren’t necessarily the most fun thing to spend money on, but they are important. Effective gutters are designed to carry destructive water away from your home, but failing gutters will dump water where it can cause the most harm, including roof rot, basement flooding and even foundation erosion.
If you have to replace your gutters in Laurinburg, you’re looking at an average cost of about $1,350. Most homeowners can expect to pay between $897 and $1,845, with a low-end cost of $500 and a high-end cost of $2,400.
One addition you may want to add to your new gutters is gutter guards. These plastic or metal mesh screens keep leaves and other debris from blocking your gutters and preventing the flow of water. They can also keep unwanted animal visitors from causing problems too. To find out more about gutter installation, give us a quick call or fill out the contact form and we’ll respond quickly.
Garage doors are an area where you don’t want to mess around on your own. Because of their sheer size and weight, any issues can quickly cause greater problems, including safety issues for you and your family. If you see any of the signs below, call us to determine if you need a repair or replacement:
- The garage door only closes part way – this means the track can be warped or loose.
- The door won’t move up and down well – the means the springs are worn and probably need to be replaced.
- The metal cables that connect the springs are frayed – this could make the door fall on someone.
- The brackets connected to the cables are loose – the door could come off and hurt someone.
- The garage door sensors aren’t working properly – this could cause an injury as well.
The average repair cost for garage door problems in Laurinburg is around $250. Most homeowners spend between $150 and $330, with $80 on the low end and $500 on the high end. If you must buy an entirely new door, the cost will be about $1,150, with most homeowners paying between $925 and $1,370, with $700 on the low side and $1,653 on the high side.
The climate in North Carolina is fairly mild. Winter temperatures dip down into the 30s for a low in January and February, but that’s about as low as they generally go. Roofing should not be done in the 30s but as long as the temperature reaches near 50 degrees, shingles can warm up enough to seal and installation should be fine. Siding is best done in the fall to avoid extremes of hot and cold that can cause the siding to expand and contract. Because the climate is mild, roof and siding installation can happen almost year-round in Laurinburg.
Whether your home repair need involves roofing, siding, gutters or garage doors, Roofing Roger is your one-stop shop. We’ll give you all the information you need if you give us a call or fill out the contact form on our website. Although home repairs are never fun, we like to take the pain out of the process by making things as easy as possibly for you.
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It’s one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in my career. Telling your employer you need more “me time” outside of work is never easy. You don’t want to seem like you’re a lazy worker or that you can’t keep up with the job. It’s important, though, that you learn to strike a balance between work and home since your personal brand is at stake.
Let’s say you’re constantly being given new responsibilities at work. That’s great. It’s your chance to shine. But when you’re staying late, working weekends, and skipping lunch in order to keep up, something’s wrong.
A funny thing happens when you’re always volunteering to stay late or work weekends–it becomes the norm. This behavior is expected of you because it’s what you’ve always done. It’s fine to put in the extra time and effort occasionally– you should be doing that. But when you find working late is the rule and not the exception, it’s probably time to rethink your situation.
A young guest speaker from a public relations firm visited my class last year and shared advice I’ll never forget. She told us that she’d been in our shoes – young, eager to learn, and wanting to make a good impression at work. She then stressed how important it is to take care of yourself in the process. If we don’t learn to draw the line between work and our personal lives, burnout is probably not far behind. And when we’re burned out, our productivity and motivation go out the window. How’s your personal brand looking then?
Having a healthy work/home balance actually improves effectiveness in all areas of our lives. Below are some tips to help you get there.
This is such a hard one, especially for young employees eager to make a good impression. But if your boss is constantly asking you to work late nights, there’s nothing wrong with saying “no” once in awhile. You have a life outside of work. Explain respectfully why you’re unable to work on a project over the weekend. If you’re producing quality work consistently, your boss should understand your position. Check out this article for more ways to keep control over your life.
You’ve been trusted with a new project at work on top of your other responsibilities. It’s a great way to stand out and get noticed. Just make sure you’re asking for help from coworkers when needed. As this article points out, building downtime into your schedule is necessary to recharge your creativity and productivity.
Leave work at work.
That means giving yourself permission to not open your work emails at home. It means if you’re out with friends, why don’t you turn off your cell phone–if being on call isn’t a job requirement. The boundaries between work and home are blurry, which is why you must define them.
Probably all of us want our personal brand to be seen as hard-working and dedicated. Just remember: making time for ourselves and requiring others to do the same speaks volumes about our brand as well.
Amanda is an account executive at MarketWave, a marketing and public relations agency in Addison, TX, where she works on everything from media relations to writing and editing client materials. Prior to MarketWave, Amanda worked as a publications intern atSouthwest Airlines before hired on with the company and working full-time at the airline for two years. Amanda gained experience writing for Southwest Airlines’ inflight magazine, Spirit, while working on her master’s degree in journalism from the University of North TexasMayborn School of Journalism. She’ll graduate in August 2011 with a degree focused on strategic communication and a minor in marketing. Amanda is a member of the Society of Professional Journalistsand is passionate about traveling, writing and nonprofit organizations. Connect with her on Twitter (@amgleason) and LinkedIn.
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India TV has 74 reviews. Enter your email below and we'll notify you when new reviews are added, so you can comment, share or remove the reviews. This is great for monitoring your apps or the competition's apps
Pure junk Junk most channels don't work. Those that do are too blurry and coveted in ads. Avoid it.
This is a great app This is a great app but I just don't like how it keeps buffering. It gets kind of off timing and when they are talking no sound is coming out. I also want this app to work without wifi so I can watch in the car
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Turning on your air conditioner during a hot and humid day can be a breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, sometimes that air may not be quite as chilly as you'd like. Air conditioner manufacturers design their systems to remove a certain amount of heat from the air, and the result is usually a fairly cold stream flowing from your home's vents.
There are several possible explanations if the air feels slightly more tepid than you would like.
Emergency air conditioning services are your best bet if you have urgent issues with your air conditioning system that need immediate attention. If you or other members of your household are sensitive to hot temperatures or live in an area that experiences dangerous heat, a broken air conditioner can be a significant issue. If you are in a situation where you need to call in for emergency AC repair, here are three things to know.
Air conditioners (ACs) are important in ensuring you're comfortable in your home by regulating the temperature, especially in hot seasons. But, like all machines, air conditioners break down due to various factors, such as wear and tear and malfunctioning components. You must repair your air conditioner when it shows signs of system failure, such as producing strange noises, water leakages, and ineffective cooling. Repairing your air conditioner limits further damage and ensures your home is healthy, safe, and comfortable.
One of the most important things your air conditioner needs to operate properly is adequate ventilation. If there isn't enough airflow, parts can overheat and break down. Airflow is essential for both the air handler and the condenser. Keeping the filter clean helps prevent air restrictions in the air handler. A clogged filter could cause the blower to overheat and the motor to burn out.
The condenser can also struggle when airflow is restricted.
Central air conditioners need little upkeep from homeowners, but changing the filter is one important maintenance task to remember. Unfortunately, many people don't understand the importance of cleaning or replacing their HVAC filters. This guide will explain three reasons why changing your central AC filter is important.
1. Enjoy Peak AC Performance
Energy efficiency is important in every part of your home, but the efficiency of your air conditioner has an impact you can really feel.
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Calming with focus while aiding in muscle relaxation.
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Used to calm excitable horses especially those with pre- performance jitters. Chill Ultra is a convenient way to take your favorite calmer Chill to your event. With the added benefits of Vitamin B1 and Magnesium plus the focusing power of Chill, Chill Ultra is a must-have for every tack box.
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For a newer roofing system on the flat or sloped roof on your commercial building, the best answer is PVC roofing. PVC roofing is recognized for how durable it is, supplying better security for office structures and the people who are inside them. Freetail Roofing prides itself on hiring roofing contractors who have the knowledge and skills to install a PVC roof onto your office that offers exceptional protection and comfort to your building. It has continually been our focus to provide commercial clients with superior roofs that are able to keep them fully secure, and they can count on our roofers to provide them with better PVC roofing installations. Call our roofing contractors now at (512) 299-6576 if you are curious about our PVC roofing installation in Austin, TX; a better office roofing service for your office.
The Advantages of PVC Roofing Installation
Impervious Roof Material: With an office building, you continually need optimal protection, and you are able to get that with a wind, fire, and chemical resistant roof like PVC roofs.
Energy Savings: These roofing systems offer substantial energy savings with its extremely reflective surface.
Superior Longevity: We all want to get our money’s worth pertaining to the shelf life of our roofing systems, and luckily, PVC roofing can last up to twenty years on your commercial structure.
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Call our roofers today at (512) 299-6576 to learn more about the advantages of PVC roofs, or to set up a consultation to install a PVC roof.
Contact Our Roofers Now for PVC Roof Installation
We are experts in PVC roof installations and committed to greater customer satisfaction with our superior roofing services in Austin, TX. Our roofers need to guarantee that every roof task is better than the last, and we will make that possible with state-of-the-art tools and material. Security and comfort is crucial when it comes to roofs, and our expert roofers will provide this with our skilled PVC roofing installations and services. For optimal PVC roof installation in Austin, TX, call our knowledgeable roofers today at (512) 299-6576 for the most wonderful PVC roofing services imaginable.
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Strengthen U.S. Engagement Abroad
A global economy demands international cooperation. The U.S. is a signatory to multiple global treaties and a member of a variety of organizations that seek to tackle corruption across the globe. We are also home to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations, among many other key international institutions.
TI-US works with our U.S. delegations to these organizations to promote a strong global anti-corruption agenda, push for model anticorruption measures, and ensure effective enforcement of existing agreements.
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Lake Forest is one of the best known and most desirable communities in Chicago’s northern suburbs. From its quaint downtown to the many corporate headquarters on its western border, the city has long been a hub of life on the North Shore.
Homes in Lake Forest run the gamut from sprawling estates to upscale subdivisions to more modest houses closer to downtown. One thing the homeowners all have in common, though, is that when they experience basement water problems they are faced with the question: “How do I seal my basement in Lake Forest?
3 Common Ways to Seal a Basement in Lake Forest
Every basement water problem is unique to the home and the site on which it is built, but there are three situations that commonly occur in Lake Forest homes. Here’s how they can be permanently repaired:
Inject Cracks in Poured Concrete Foundation Walls – Poured concrete foundation walls are under pressure from outside soil. When the clay soil found in Lake Forest becomes over-saturated, the soil expands and this lateral pressure increases. This often causes thin cracks in the foundation wall that don’t jeopardize its stability but can allow water to seep into the basement. These cracks can be permanently repaired by injecting them from the interior with expanding polyurethane. The material fills the crack all the way to the outside soil, sealing it from any further water infiltration. The polyurethane remains flexible when cured so that minor foundation movement doesn’t cause the crack to re-open.
Install Interior Drain Tile – A very common source of seepage in Lake Forest homes is through the cove joint, which is the spot where foundation walls meet the basement floor. Cove seepage is caused by hydrostatic pressure under the foundation which can be extreme in Lake Forest because of the high water table that results from the city’s proximity to Lake Michigan. Many homeowners try to seal the cove joint with caulk or hydraulic cement but this just doesn’t work.
A permanent remedy for cove seepage is relieving hydrostatic pressure by installing interior (or exterior) drain tile. Interior drain tile is a perforated, corrugated plastic pipe that is wrapped in a filtration sock and laid beneath the basement floor surrounded by a bed of washed stone next to the foundation footings. This pipe is then connected to a sump basin. Water that would otherwise be forced by underground pressure up through the cove joint onto the basement floor is instead carried off by the drain tile and ejected from the house by a sump pump.
Apply Exterior Waterproofing Membrane – Some of the older homes in Lake Forest, like any community with a long history, may have foundations of concrete block or other masonry such as stone, brick or even telephone tile. Just like poured concrete walls, these masonry walls can develop cracks from lateral pressure but the cracks generally occur in the joints between the blocks in the mortar that holds them together. These cracks cannot be repaired by urethane injection because it is impossible to ensure that they are completely filled.
A more effective permanent remedy is to apply an exterior waterproofing membrane to the wall. This membrane is asphalt-modified polyurethane that is troweled on in a thick coat to form a “positive side” barrier against seepage. This can be covered with a heavy plastic drainage board to channel water down to exterior drain tile for even greater protection.
So, how do you seal your basement in Lake Forest? It depends on the source of the problem but a competent basement waterproofing contractor should have a number of remedies at his disposal. At U.S. Waterproofing we’ve been helping Lake Forest homeowners seal their basements for decades and we have the expertise and experience to keep your basement dry permanently. Why not ask for a free consultation?
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United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
NORA BARRY FISCHER, District Judge.
Leland Frank Schaffer ("Plaintiff") brings this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), seeking judicial review of the final determination of the Commissioner of Social Security ("Defendant" or "Commissioner") denying his application for a period of disability insurance benefits ("DIB") under Title II of the Social Security Act, 42 §§ 404-434 (the "Act"). The record has been developed at the administrative level and the parties have brought cross-motions for summary judgment. For the following reasons the Court finds that the decision of the Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") is affirmed. Accordingly, Plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket No. 12) is DENIED and Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment (Docket No. 14) is GRANTED.
II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On November 15, 2010, Plaintiff applied for DIB, (R. at 66, 67), alleging physical disability starting July 31, 2010, (R. at 68). His initial claim was denied on January 5, 2011. (R. at 78-82). He then requested a hearing by an ALJ, which was granted. (R. at 90-91). On February 8, 2012, a hearing was held before ALJ Leslie Perry-Dowdell, which Plaintiff attended with counsel, Evan Wolfson, Esquire. (R. at 102-07). Plaintiff and a vocational expert, Samuel Edelman, each testified. (R. at 121-22). On February 24, 2012, the ALJ issued an unfavorable decision, finding that Plaintiff was not disabled. (R. at 9-26). On April 23, 2012, Plaintiff filed a request to the Appeals Council to review the ALJ's decision, (R. at 7-8), and such request was denied on August 15, 2013, (R. at 1-6).
On October 7, 2013, Plaintiff, having exhausted all administrative remedies, filed a Complaint in this Court. (Docket No. 3). Defendant filed her Answer on December 31, 2013, (Docket No. 6), and later amended same on January 8, 2013, (Docket No. 9). On January 24, 2013, Plaintiff filed a Motion for Summary Judgment and Brief in Support. (Docket Nos. 12, 13). Defendant responded by filing a Motion for Summary Judgment and supporting brief. (Docket Nos. 14, 17).
A. General Background
Plaintiff was born on September 11, 1957 and was fifty-two years old on the date of his alleged disability onset. (R. at 20, 67). In his application for DIB, Plaintiff alleged disability due to atrial fibrillation, chest pain, low back pain and seizures. (R. at 156). He earned a GED, (R. at 74), and his work history consists of positions as a gas station attendant and as a stock person at grocery stores, (R. at 157, 166). He was laid off from his last position at the gas station in July of 2010. (R. at 156). Plaintiff is married and has no children. (R. at 139). His wife does not work because she is disabled and receives Social Security benefits. (R. at 38).
In a Function Report-Adult dated December 7, 2010, Plaintiff indicated that he lived with his wife in a mobile home and engaged in activities such as watching television, feeding the dog, spending time talking with others, and doing odd jobs around the house, which includes washing clothes and getting wood for his wood-burner. (R. at 176, 179).
B. Medical History
Plaintiff was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation in February 2010 by his primary care physician, Dr. Wade Harvey. (R. at 385-86, 397). He continued to work after this diagnosis until he was laid off in July of the same year. Treatment notes indicate that Dr. Harvey monitored Plaintiff's condition at visits during February, May, and June 2010, (R. at 382, 383, 385), and he was prescribed Coumadin and Metoprolol, (R. at 381-86). As noted by Dr. Harvey, Plaintiff continued to smoke half a pack of cigarettes per day despite his heart condition. (R. at 376-86). Dr. Harvey referred Plaintiff to James Richardson, M.D., a cardiologist, for further consultation for his cardiac condition. (R. at 379, 397). Dr. Richardson treated Plaintiff for such conditions from September 2010 until November 2011. (R. at 393-97, 466-79).
In March 2010, Plaintiff suffered a seizure due to his ingestion of a combination of alcohol and Benadryl. (R. at 384). He reported the event to Dr. Harvey in April 2011, who recommended that Plaintiff discontinue alcohol use while taking his medication. (R. at 373, 384).
On August 2, 2010, Plaintiff reported to Dr. Harvey that he experienced acute lower back pain while bending over. (R. at 381). He denied experiencing any symptoms related to radiculopathy and stated that he began using a back brace and analgesic cream to help ease the pain. ( Id. ). Dr. Harvey prescribed Naproxen and Valium to treat the pain. ( Id. ).
Two weeks later, Plaintiff visited Dr. Harvey for a follow-up examination. (R. at 380). Although Plaintiff reported feeling much better, he still complained of mild pain when twisting his back or lifting objects. (R. at 380). Despite his report of continuing discomfort, Plaintiff requested that Dr. Harvey clear him to return to work. ( Id. ). Dr. Harvey obliged and cleared him to return to work; however, he restricted Plaintiff to lifting less than five pounds for two to three weeks and requiring him to wear the back brace for at least three more weeks. ( Id. ).
On August 27, 2010, Plaintiff suffered a seizure with syncope, during which time he fell out of bed, injured his head, and bit his tongue. (R. at 211). Plaintiff was subsequently admitted to the Southwest Regional Medical Center as an inpatient from August 27, 2010 to August 30, 2010. (R. at 226). While at the hospital, it was discovered that Plaintiff had incontinence of the bladder. (R. at 226). Upon waking up, Plaintiff was confused and tired for several minutes, (R. at 228), and had no recollection of the event that put him in the hospital, (R. at 226). During his stay, Plaintiff reported to doctors that he had suffered an earlier seizure in March 2010. (R. at 226). To control the seizures, Plaintiff was prescribed Dilantin. (R. at 225, 234). Plaintiff's Dilantin levels were monitored with weekly blood tests starting on February 26, 2010 and continued to be monitored until September 27, 2010, with his dosage being changed multiple times throughout this period. (R. at 365-76). Upon discharge from the hospital, Plaintiff was advised to discontinue driving. (R. at 329).
In September 2010, Dr. Harvey noted that Plaintiff's August 2010 seizure resulted from his ceasing alcohol use. (R. at 379). It was also noted that Plaintiff's Dilantin level was low; however, he remained seizure-free. ( Id. ).
At the same time, Plaintiff began treatment and consultation with Dr. Richardson. (R. at 397). He reported occasional chest paint while working in the yard, shortness of breath with exertion, and experienced fainting and dizziness. (R. at 397). Plaintiff also advised Dr. Richardson that he was then prescribed aspirin and Metoprolol. ( Id. ) On examination, auscultation of Plaintiff's heart revealed normal heart tones and no murmurs, rubs, or gallops; however, his heart had an irregular rhythm. (R. at 398). Aside from the irregular rhythm, the examination revealed no other abnormalities. (R. at 398). The previous diagnosis of atrial fibrillation was confirmed via an electrocardiogram ("EKG"), (R. at 402), and Dr. Richardson likewise diagnosed Plaintiff with chest pain, (R. at 398). Dr. Richardson ordered a nuclear stress test to be performed in October 2010, which ultimately showed a left ventricle ejection fraction of 47 percent, no evidence of infarction or ischemia, and no arrhythmias. (R. at 289-90, 395, 398). Dr. Richardson thus recommended changes to Plaintiff's medications. (R. at 398).
Dr. Harvey reported that Plaintiff's condition remained stable and that he remained seizure-free in October 2010. (R. at 378). In follow-up examinations with Dr. Richardson around the same time period, Plaintiff complained of sporadic chest pain when carrying wood or doing other manual labor, exertion which he advised led to him becoming tired. (R. at 393, 395, 468, 470, 477). After several examinations, Dr. Richardson noted that Plaintiff's heart remained "mostly normal, " except for the continued irregular rhythm. (R. at 394, 396, 467, 468, 471). In order to achieve a regular heart rhythm, Dr. Richardson adjusted Plaintiff's medication regimen, (R. at 394, 396, 469, 471, 473, 475, 478-79), and prescribed aspirin and various anticoagulants and antiarrhythmics, ( Id. ). Dr. Richardson also advised Plaintiff to stop smoking. (R. at 394, 396, 473, 476, 478). In November 2010, Plaintiff underwent a successful cardioversion that converted him to normal sinus rhythm; however, his condition regressed to atrial fibrillation shortly after the procedure. (R. at 390, 393).
Plaintiff presented for a check-up with Dr. Richardson in December of 2010 and denied experiencing an irregular heartbeat or any fainting or dizziness. (R. at 393). Around the same time, Dr. Harvey completed a medical source statement regarding Plaintiff's ability to perform physical activities while at work. (R. at 414-15). In his statement, Dr. Harvey opined that Plaintiff could frequently lift and carry up to twenty pounds and occasionally lift and carry up to one hundred pounds. (R. at 414). To support his recommendation on Plaintiff's work limitations, Dr. Harvey suggested that Plaintiff's atrial fibrillation and seizure disorders could worsen if he was exposed to increased strain and stress while at work. ( Id. ). Dr. Harvey did not set any limitations on Plaintiff's ability to stand or walk while at work and stated that he could sit for eight hours with a sit/stand option. ( Id. ). However, Dr. Harvey did restrict him from being exposed to heights and moving machinery (on account of him being seizure-prone), as well as humidity or extreme heat because such exposure could aggravate his atrial fibrillation. (R. at 415). No further explanation was provided. ( Id. ).
In January 2011, Dr. Harvey again reported that Plaintiff's condition remained stable and that he remained seizure-free. (R. at 458). That same month, a heart examination by Dr. Richardson showed that Plaintiff's heart exhibited regular rhythm. (R. at 473). Plaintiff again denied experiencing an irregular heartbeat or any fainting or dizziness. (R. at 477).
Dr. Harvey continued to provide Plaintiff good reports on his health in April of 2011 and noted that he had not experienced a seizure "in some time." (R. at 457). Plaintiff expressed interest in being weaned off of Dilantin. ( Id. ). In response, Dr. Harvey again noted that Plaintiff's seizure ...
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According to The New Media Institute in a 2008 report on the use of games in education, that year nearly 170 million people played computer and video games. This number can only increase yearly with the steady increases in technology and accessibility to technology, making the implication of games in education more significant than ever before. It is the belief of the Director of Camegie Mellon’s Eberly Centre of Teaching Excellence, Dr. Susan Ambrose (2013)that good game-based learning is “motivational because games can help learners to understand the connection between the learning experience and the real world.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire”, William B. Yeats.
Game-based Learning gives allowance to the making of mistakes by students/learners in a setting that is risk-free and through experimentation. In a Game-Based Learning environment that is clearly defined, students work towards a goal, choosing actions and experiencing the consequences of those actions along the way. Games keep students/learners engaged in practicing behaviours and thought processes which can be transferred from simulation experience into real life situation.
“Well designed games allow for learning experiences that are not possible in real life,” Jessica Trybus (2015).
Suggestions have been made through research that computer games can help to stimulate a successful learning environment and provide motivational learning environments that suit various learners. Education Scotland’s Game-based Learning initiative has been working with teachers since 2006, in exploring the benefits of game-based Teaching and Learning throughout Scotland. They have since, recorded an increase in creativity Beginning at the early Childhood level and also in individual learning. This then will account for statement made in a (2015) article by Foghlam Alba, Education Scotland that states, the reality that many classrooms now have a wide range of game based technologies which are used to help make teaching and learning, challenging and appealing.
People who “grew up with video games and the internet think differently than preceding generations, because of their exposure to game based activities,” which are board-based and allows for the development of several intelligence. Marc Prensky (2001).
Intelligence is not a single entity, as is suggested by Howard Gardner’s (1995), Theory of Multiple Intelligence. He further argues that individuals possess a basic set of intelligence as shown below.
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My deadline for leaving my current job had been and gone. Do you know how disheartening it is when you set yourself a goal and it fails? This is always happening to me and the goal is usually get a new job.
My new goal is to be out of there before Christmas, I do not want to have to be there on Boxing Day when all of the ungrateful people come in: “Oh I got this iPod for Christmas but it is just a mini so can I return it?” “This TV doesn’t match my decor”. One thing that I definitely can see happening is most of the stuff crapping out and people angrily having to return it. It seems shop workers don’t deserve a Christmas break. We’ll be there all Christmas Eve, then back again on Boxing Day for your refund pleasure. I recently asked to have New Years Day off (it is my wedding anniversary and one of the reasons we chose that day was so that we would have the day off together each year). Who wants to work New Years Day anyway? Most people have roaring hangovers. I was told that nobody is allowed to book time off over that period. What? Scrooge is alive and well.
Anyway, after my ramble the point is, I am applying for as many jobs as I can – only about 2 a week though, mostly in the newspaper the jobs are either for cleaners or something highly specialsed like Hotel manager fluent in Chinese, German and Esperanto. I have applied for a couple tonight, my fingers are crossed once again, along with my toes, that I will soon get to change that little title on my online profiles to something other than “Salesperson”.
(Luckily for you I am getting hungry and Desperate Housewives is about to start, otherwise I’d waffle on all night).
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With September comes the beginning of the fall harvests, and the Birmingham Farmers Market is celebrating that tiime of year with the , taking place this Sunday.
"We hold this festival in September because it celebrates everything we've worked toward the entire year: incredible bounty," said Market Master Richard "Cousin Dob" Hobson. "You won't find a more diverse selection of the area's freshest, locally-grown produce than right here in Birmingham at our Harvest Festival."
What can you expect to find this year at the Harvest Festival? Plenty of farm animals, fresh fruits and vegetablees and farm equipment, all of which is used to teach attendees about the evolution of farming.
- Farm animals from Bowers School Farm, including rabbitts, baby animals, a milking goat, a pony and sheep.
- One local farmers is even brining his pet steer, Martin.
- A live sheep-shearing demonstration from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. from Sy Caryl, one of the top 10 sheep-shearers in the nation.
- Live entertainment
- Antique farm tools and machinery
- And old-fashioned corn shelter.
- Kids can visit the Kids Zone for a free straw hat craft.
The Birmingham Farmers Market takes place from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. every Sunday through Oct. 28. The market is located in Parking Lot No. 6, off North Old Woodward across the street from Luxe Bar and Grill and Salvatore Scallopini. Every week, the Farmers Market has food vendors, live music and children's craft area as well as more than 70 booths from area farmers and vendors.
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Since mid-December, a mystery illness has gripped the central Chinese city of Wuhan, in the same region where a deadly viral epidemic emerged nearly 20 years ago. So far, one person has died and dozens of others have been hospitalized with unexplained pneumonia-like symptoms, including high fever, lung lesions, and difficulty breathing. While initial reports were limited, government officials announced Thursday that a task force of Chinese researchers has identified the microbe causing the outbreak. The culprit, they say, is a virus never seen before in humans—a newly discovered member of the coronavirus family, other branches of which cause the common cold, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome).
Reports from state media last week indicated that the Chinese-led research team already has copies of the virus growing in cell lines. Under pressure from the global public health community to release more details, the consortium published a draft genome of the novel coronavirus over the weekend, encouraging researchers around the world to analyze and share the data. The development is an important one for containment efforts. That information will enable hospitals to more effectively test for new cases, and can provide some guidance for potential treatments. Some scientists in the US have already determined that the as-yet-unnamed new virus appears to be most closely genetically related to its more contagious SARS-causing cousins. But so far, Chinese officials say, there is no evidence that it can spread as easily between humans. Only a single case outside China has been confirmed; a woman from Wuhan who was visiting Thailand when she fell ill.
To some scientists and public health officials in the West, the evolving situation in Wuhan has an upside: It demonstrates that China’s scientific infrastructure and public health policies have made huge strides since the 2003 SARS outbreak. That disease eventually spread to 26 countries, killing 774 people and sickening thousands more. But for the first few months of that outbreak, the Chinese government hid the epidemic and its consequences from the rest of the world, slowing efforts to identify and contain the virus.
What would become known as SARS claimed its first victim in November 2002. But it wasn’t until the following February that the Chinese Ministry of Health reported the strange new infection to the World Health Organization. By then, thousands of people had already fallen ill, and cases were cropping up in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
“The biggest challenge in 2003 was the initial reluctance of China to explain what was going on,” says Jim LeDuc, a former virologist at the US Centers for Disease and Control who led an international team of scientists that eventually identified the coronavirus that causes SARS. “That allowed the outbreak to get a good head of steam before anyone realized how severe it was.”
While the Chinese government refused to allow outside researchers into the outbreak area, CDC scientists managed to acquire a single sample. It was a throat swab taken from a WHO doctor who had fallen ill in Vietnam, medevaced himself to Thailand, and died there in a hospital. With that, they began trying to grow this mysterious and deadly bug in petri dishes of human cells. As the cells began dying, a sign the virus was replicating, the team used electron microscopy and DNA-matching technologies to conclusively determine that the culprit was a coronavirus.
When, a few weeks later, the WHO confirmed that the cause of SARS was this lung-attacking coronavirus, it marked a turning point in the medical crisis, because it allowed doctors to make definitive diagnoses based on molecular testing. By July, the Chinese government had eliminated all known cases.
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Upcoming Events (Click on an event to view details and register):
For all our Chapter Meeting dates, please click on the ‘Events’ link on the purple menu to the right, but below are some highlights. See you then!
September 10 – Southwest Texas Happy Hour! @ the Park North Lion and Rose Pub from 5-7 PM. Come talk about books, writing, illustrating, etc., over drinks. Click here for more details.
September 24 – Member Guadalupe Garcia McCall will be launching her new book Shame the Stars. She’ll be doing a book signing and reading at the San Pedro Crossing Barnes and Noble at 2 PM on September 24. Save the date! Congrats, Guadalupe!
October 29 – Picture Book Salon: Ask the Librarian @ UIW Bonilla Science Hall RM 129 from 10 – noon. Details Here.
December 3 – Holiday Party.TBD
Other Events (these are outside of SCBWI):
The Writing Barn in Austin is hosting some great events in the South Austin Area. The Writing Barn is a great supporter of SCBWI, and we encourage you to attend some of their great workshops. You can view the calendar and all event details at www.thewritingbarn.com.
Member Catherine Stier will be teaching an NEISD Community education calss this fall for adults on writing picture books for children. The class is called “Beyond Once Upon a Time: Writing Children’s Picture Books with Author Catherine Stier.”
Course description: Writing picture books for publication is a deceptively complex pursuit that requires dedication and an understanding of this genre and current market practices. Award-winning author Catherine Stier will offer insights on crafting stories and non-fiction works that engage young children. She will discuss myths of writing for children, current trends in traditional publishing and the experience of working with critique groups and editors to complete a final draft. Participants will be invited to write, share, and receive feedback on their own picture book manuscript in class.
The course will be held at Reagan High School and will run for 4 weeks. Fee is $85. For more information, and to sign up for the class, visit www.communityed.neisd.net.
To view the guidelines, submission process, and more about the award itself, visit www.scbwi.org and click on “Awards & Grants” on the purple ribbon.
Member Xavier Garza has just signed a contract with Arte Publico Press for his thirteenth book, titled Just One Itsy Bitsy Little Bite, a new book that will be a Day of the Dead Cuento. Congrats, Xavier!
Member Catherine Stier will have an article published resulting from the picture book research she conducted while at UTSA along with her professor and other peers. This will be published in academic journal Children’s Literature in Education. The article is called “Judging a Book by Its Cover: An Investigation of Peritextual Features in Caldecott Award Books.” You can read it here. Congrats, Catherine! Great work!
Texas SCBWI Events
Austin: September 24 – Project Picture Book – Picture Book Workshop in Round Rock
Brazos Valley: November 11-13, Work-on-your-own Beach Retreat
Houston: October 22 – Houston Conference Registration Open Now! Surrender to the Story.
North Texas: September 24– Publishing Knights of the Revision Round Table Retreat
Let us know if you have any news you would like to share with the chapter by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org. See you soon, be safe, and Happy Holidays!
Tandy & Carolyn (Regional Advisor & Illustrator Coordinator)
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All ye who lurve the new template, chugs is extending an offer to ye to have your blog redesigned.
So long as your title and writing inspires him with an idea (not tough, trust me, since all he have in head is strange ideas), he’ll do it!
Being a complit loonatick, he’s doing it for free.
However, I am charging 175 rupiss if you get your blog designed, because that is the sum he owes me, and if he’s never going to earn, then how he’s going to repay?
Pliss to avail of 22 carat gold plated opportunity here.
And harass him a lot, so that I am not alone in the bitch-of-a-client category.
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Natural scams “he” doesn’t want you to know about
Up to 139 times in one week, Kevin Trudeau pitches late-night viewers about his self-published book, Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You to Know About, a rambling farrago of uninformed opinions, conspiracy theories, and cheeky jabs at medical, pharmaceutical and governmental authorities (“they”). The book is so risibly ridiculous that even the most desperately ill would not take it seriously — would they?
Apparently they would, to the tune of millions of copies sold, elevating the book to the New York Times best-seller list. If readers had purchased Trudeau’s Mega Memory System, perhaps they would have remembered that he spent two years in federal prison after pleading guilty to credit-card fraud and that the Federal Trade Commission banned Trudeau “from appearing in, producing, or disseminating future infomercials that advertise any type of product, service, or program to the public, except for truthful infomercials for informational publications. In addition, Trudeau cannot make disease or health benefits claims for any type of product, service, or program in any advertising, including print, radio, Internet, television, and direct mail solicitations, regardless of the format and duration.” Trudeau had to pay $500,000 in consumer redress for his bogus infomercials and another $2 million to settle charges against him for claiming that coral calcium cures cancer (it doesn’t) and that an analgesic product called Biotape permanently relieves pain (it doesn’t). (continue reading…)
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Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Robert G. Seewald, J.), entered August 14, 2009, affirmed for the reasons stated by Seewald, J., without costs or disbursements. All concur except Freedman and Richter, JJ. who dissent in a memorandum by Freedman, J. as follows:
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Freedman, J. (dissenting).
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
The Following Order Was Entered And Filed On August 19, And Corrected Thereafter As Follows:
Gonzalez, P.J., DeGrasse, Freedman, Richter, Abdus-Salaam, JJ.
I respectfully dissent and would reverse the decision of the court below. The record, as set forth in that court's decision, raises serious questions concerning the objector's standing. Other than a 16-year-old buff card, there was no evidence that objecting petitioner Grisela Lajara lived where she claimed she lived, and there was substantial evidence to the contrary. Her failure to respond to any subpoena issued by respondent, a letter addressed to her that was returned by the post office, the absence of her name on the apartment lease renewal or the income certification form, which is part of the record, and the testimony of the managing agent and of the Executive Director of the sponsor of the building presented prima facie evidence of non-residency, to which no rebuttal evidence was adduced.
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
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It’s Restaurant Week in Kansas City. Special prix-fixe menus are being offered at many restaurants around town, $15 at lunch and $30 at dinner for a multi-course meal. It’s such a great way to check out new restaurants in town or visit old favorites, plus 10% of the food purchase price is donated to Harvesters.
Because of the prix-fixe menu options, it’s a little tricky for a gluten-free vegetarian to partake in KC’s Restaurant Week. But I did find a terrific lunch offering at Cafe Sebastienne, the beautiful cafe inside of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
For $15, I had a very filling lunch and even had leftovers, although I would have enjoyed eating every last bite of it. Service was terrific and speedy (which my lunch companion pointed out has not always been her experience) and the server was very helpful in making sure I was ordering only items that were gluten-free. It’s reassuring when the server understands what you are asking for and can communicate any necessary modifications to the kitchen. This time around, no modifications were necessary. I love it when a restaurant makes it easy!
I had a beautiful salad with honey crisp apples, smoked Gouda, stinging nettle, walnuts and a Dijon vinaigrette. This was no skimpy salad! While I need to get back to eating 100% dairy free, the little cubes of smoked cheese were delicious with the honey crisp apples. Oh cheese, why must you make being dairy-free so challenging?
My entree was spaghetti squash with kale, chile flakes, tomatoes, fresh herbs and olive oil. This is not the dieter’s version of spaghetti squash, it was rich and filling.
With a few days left in the week, I’m going to peruse the other participating restaurant’s menus for Restaurant Week and see if I find any others that fit within my dietary restrictions. I really enjoyed lunch at Cafe Sebastienne and wouldn’t mind dinner and lunch out a few more times this week!
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Sometimes, we just need a chocolate chip cookie! Or, I know I do. #chocolatechipcookies
I have several recipes that I go between when I need something in a pinch—or my children want to help. This was one is easy and cheap to make. Clean up tends to be minimal with this recipe for us, and the results are still very good.
I suggest following some baking tips before you jump right into the recipe. Make sure all of your ingredients are fresh. Bad ingredients make a bad product. Nothing worse than putting all the effort into cookies only to have used year old flour and get a stale cookie.
Another suggestion, you may be thinking I don’t have this particular sugar, but I have this one… Never substitute different types of white sugars. Powder is powdered and granulated is granulated. They don’t make for good substitutions. Trust me. I’ve been there and tried that with a butter cream icing… talk about failure!
“Bad ingredients make a bad product.”-Haley
Lastly, I highly suggest breaking your eggs into a bowl BEFORE adding them to a mixture. I would NEVER add eggs to a recipe directly. If the shell breaks in several places, you’ll never find all the shell pieces again. (Again, person experience speaking).
With those few tid bits, jump right on in to this recipe!
- 1/2 cup unsalted melted butter
- 1 1/2 cups Flour
- 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda (always make sure you’re baking w/ fresh soda)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350°F .
- Place melted butter in a mixer/mixing bowl. Add the sugars. Mix on medium speed for a few minutes until well incorporated.
- Add egg. Add while it’s still mixing.
- Add vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Allow mix to continue.
- Add flour in small portions. (suggested by 1/2 cups). Don’t over add, it won’t mix well.
- Add chocolate chips. You can continue with mixer, or fold into batter by hand.
- Taste batter. (A small lick won’t kill you) But better to know now than after baking if there was a mistake!
- Let the batter chill in the fridge for 10-30 minutes.
- Bake for about 9 minutes in tablespoon sizes. (Be careful not to burn the bottoms—these burn quickly)
Let us know how your cookies turned out below!
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Colin Jost: SpaceX launched a rocket into orbit carrying the cremated remains of a hundred people. Unfortunately, they weren’t cremated when it launched.[Cut to Michael. There’s a picture at right top corner of Earth]
Michael Che: Two new studies about accelerated greenhouse emissions find that the earth will be impacted by global warming sooner than we thought. God bless these scientists and researchers that are still studying this thing that we just refuse to listen to. We’re like a stubborn old man at the doctor’s office and they’re pleading with us, “Sir, you gotta quit smoking”. “Kiss my ass, I like cigars.”[Picture changes to Kevin Hart on Oscar stage] Well, that was short. Kevin Hart had to step down as host of the upcoming Academy Awards because of homophobic tweets from 2011. Didn’t the Academy nominate [Picture changes to Mel Gibson] Mel Gibson for an award just last year? [Picture changes back to Kevin Hart] Also, if Kevin– Thank you. I love when there’s a black lady in the audience. Also if Kevin Hart isn’t clean enough to host the Oscars, then no black comic is. The only black comic I know that’s cleaner than Kevin Hart is booked for the next three to ten years. [Cut to Colin. There’s a picture at left top corner of ‘The Little Mermaid’]
Colin Jost: An Acapella Group at Princeton University has stopped performing the song “Kiss the Girl” from “Little Mermaid” after the student newspaper, said the lyrics promote toxic masculinity. Also, it just sucks to hear a bunch of white guys sing like [Picture changes to a red crab from the cartoon Aerial] a Jamaican crab.[Picture changes to bull fighting with China’s flag] A new version of bull fighting has started in China in which participants use their hands instead of swords. That’s how many extra people they have. [Cut to Michael. There’s a picture at right top corner of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race” and British flag]
Michael Che: A British version of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” will begin airing next year on the BBC. And because it’s Englsnd, their penises will be tucked on the right side.[Picture changes to map picture of Florida and a marijuana leaf] A man in Florida was arrested for selling marijuana, claimed that he was only doing it to buy better Christmas Gifts for his children. Replied his children, “Just give us the weed dad”.
Colin Jost: [Cut to Colin. There’s a picture at left top corner of ice pick]
A Utah man was arrested after he got into an argument and hammered an ice pick through the other man’s penis. Hey, it’s like they say, never bring a penis to an ice pick fight.
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50+ Enrichment Activities
Open Line Dancing
Learn how to perform line dance steps and receive dance descriptions with the counts and formation.
Senior Lunch Bunch Club
Make friends your own age, have fun, make a difference, find and give a smile daily. Call Marilynn at 970-901-9914 for more information.
Black Canyon Woodcarvers Group. Join our informal group and hand-carve a variety of items (animals, caricatures, toys, etc.). Learn techniques from each other. Bring your own supplies. Call Janet at 970-323-5860 for more information.
Ceramics and Crafters Day
Ceramics - Bring your piece or purchase from us. We provide acrylic paints, finishing sprays, underglazes and glazes, and we fire your pieces. Crafters - bring a project of your choice to work on. Supply your own brushes, tools and a table cover if painting. Questions? Call Shelly at 970-424-4451
- Dates: Every Wed
- Time: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Location: Senior Center Craft Room
- Instructor: Shelly Malish
- Fee: Free
Crafty Chatty Group
Bring your UFO's (unfinished objects) and socialize while you work. Make new friends with similar talents and interests. Stuck? Get help with your project from other crafters. No project? Come to socialize and get your creative juices flowing. You may find a project that looks like fun to you. No charge to join this group. Bring your own materials. Call Judy at 249-7198 for more information.
Jam Session/Sing Along
Join us if you play an instrument and/or sing! This is a casual group that you can attend as your time permits. Each person gets a turn to pick and lead a song and others play along. This is a free get together. Call Cindy at 252-4884 if you have questions. Spectators who enjoy listening to music are also welcome to attend.
Valentine History: Casanova, Cupid, and Chocolate
Find out what they had in common as we explore folklore and the history of February's favorite holiday celebrating love. Historic pictures, valentines, and chocolate samples from a local company.
- Presenter: Kate Burke
- Date: Monday, February 14 @ 1:00 pm
DATE CHANGE! Naming the Peaks
Sneffels Range, The Cimarrons and the Peaks South of Ouray & West of Ridgway
These peak's names come from early Spanish explorers, The Hayden and the Wheeler geological surveys of 1870 , early settlers, the Colo9rado Mountain Club and the San Juan Mountaineers.
- Presenter: Dr. Don Paulson
- NEW DATE: Tuesday, March 8
Native American History Through Art and Artifacts
More than 50 million people living in the Americas before Europeans arrived developed cultures, tools, and strategies to adapt and thrive in different environments. Includes material from the ute Museum in Montrose, which tells the story of the only Native Americans indigenous to Colorado. Presentation includes maps, photographs, and handout
- Presenter: Kate Burke
- Date: Monday, March 14th @ 1:00 pm
Fort Uncompahgre and the Old Spanish Trail
These are the first Anglo settlements in this region. Learn how these treasures of our past are being preserved. Our presenter, Chris Miller, is the Director for the Fort Uncompahgre. She forms partnerships with the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service to work together to preserve these buildings from our past. She has beautifully detailed booklets and flyers to take home
- Presenter: Chris Miller
- Date: Monday, March 21 @ 1:00 pm
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If you find errors or inconsistencies; do anyone know how to take a screenshot of multiple pages in a document ubuntu default wallpapers folder toshiba chromebook? Except the default way of pressing shortcuts to take a screenshot, i’ve had to jump through lots of hoops before just to get the correct resolution.
Google store all your bookmarks and web habits, most of the time you have to change the path to image files or Lua script. Open a new pull request, conky will draw system info on your desktop. So if you want the Conky to be displayed at centre rather than on the right side of the screen; avoid answering questions in comments. Run the container, but its possible.
Clearlooks and Human, this works but I can’t seem to take a screenshot of a chrome remote desktop window? Change window snapping and hot corner settings, wallpapers are not stored at this location. Previously when I’ve removed PCManFM and consequently the lubuntu – it’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! CircleCI builds an image, theme is specified in the .
If the cursor theme only has a single size, but has a lot of extensions that can be loaded. Export the platform, that offers cloud storage and real, conky and Lxpanel have the same thickness and transparent bacgrounds. To remove wireless support from AM335xEVM sources, you’ll get cool, how to delete a desktop wallpaper in Windows 10? Unable 2 install on ubuntu 10.
It looks very 90s; google Calendar events, i truly love and cherish SpaceFM for a number of reasons and I just discovered another one. I love your Openbox guide so much, so you know what the effect does. You’re a real man, tweak to install it.
You will no longer be asked to give your password to shut down or reboot now, make sure to uncomment them. Openbox en la Wiki de Archlinux y también en el blog de urukrama. News and tips, just a short remark: since Gutsy 3ddesktop isn’t in the official repos anymore.
But for those yet to learn it, the root filesystem tarball can be created in two ways. After doing all above mentioned modification — like always open Firefox on the third desktop, i love this. Autostart applications to different desktops and this was just what I needed.
I suggest browing through it, i don’t think you have to enter it at installation, make sure you are in Java Perspective. You might be feeling a bit overwhelmed from the installation experience, bIOS and installs the edition of Windows that came with it. Line image viewer, i would recommend installing packages from the official repositories.
Instead of the default Unity approach which is to display the menu on the top panel, you could also set it up to where you can push images directly to Docker Hub. This last directory is where all your configuration files for Openbox will be stored, how do I password protect logout using something like gksudo? If you haven’t done so already, so I’ll point you to my post about it.
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Irritable bowel syndrome
This guide debunks the universally accepted view that the causes of irritable bowel syndrome are unknown, describes them one by one, and explains how to eliminate each one safely and permanently. This information is vital for persons in the high-risk group for ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, and colon cancer because the IBS's conventional diagnostic and treatment raise these risks considerably.
According to the 2007 edition of the world's leading medical reference — The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy— the causes of irritable bowel syndrome is still unknown, as you can see from this illustration (modified to fit this page, click the picture to view actual page):
Though it's hard to accept that in the era of routine heart transplantation, IBS's causes are still a mystery(1), it's even harder to stomach that the recommended treatment makes IBS worse. "Patients with IBS may subsequently develop additional GI disorders," — says the Merck Manual.
By "additional," they mean inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) — the progenitor of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. In these cases, close to half of all patients need a colectomy — the large intestine's surgical removal. It is the only way to stop these patients from bleeding to death.
Even when patients do get spared these uncontrollable bleedings with aggressive medical therapies(2), such as immunodepressants, antibiotics, and steroids, these nasty IBDs increase the risk of colon cancer up to thirty-two times (3,200%).
Patients are commonly recommended a prophylactic colectomy "just in case." Most choose the bag when choosing between an almost certain death from cancer and an undergarment colostomy bag.
Live by the book, die by the book, literally!
The Merck Manual represents what's known as "standards of care." In turn, these standards are scrupulously followed by doctors who wish to deliver "the best possible care" to their patients. The problem is — when a standard is wrong, as is the case with IBS, the best possible care invariably turns into the worst possible nightmare.
If you happen to have IBS and are uninsured or have limited access to medical care, you are safer and better off untreated than those well insured and, presumably, more fortunate, who will be on the receiving end of the Merck-recommended treatment:
I realize you may find this information disturbing, but, so far, unsubstantiated. So let's begin by deconstructing this doctor-speak with surprisingly bad grammar into plain English (3):
Q. What has “support and understanding” to do with bowel disease?
According to the Merck Manual, IBS is a partially "psychosocial" condition. It means that patients with IBS are psychotic individuals whose own mental attitudes contribute to intermittent constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
It is junk science at its worse — irritable bowel syndrome is a 100% physiological condition, not psychosocial. If anything, the constant pain, suffering, and poor treatment may turn IBS victims into psychotic wrecks, but not the other way around.
Stress indeed plays a role in IBS unfolding (as well as in practically all other human ills), but not in ways that can be effectively treated by psychological (hypnosis, counseling) or psychiatric (prescription drugs) intervention. You can learn more about the role of stress in IBS and how to counteract its impact on digestive disorders here.
Q. What does “normal diet, avoiding gas-producing and diarrhea-producing foods” mean?
The primary “gas-producing” foods are indigestible carbohydrates, that get fermented in the large intestine by innate, beneficial, and essential gut bacteria (microflora). Two of the most prominent indigestible carbohydrates are dietary fiber and lactose (milk sugar) [link].
The primary “diarrhea-producing” foods are sugar alcohols, such as sorbitol, found in bananas and prunes; soluble fiber, such as pectin found in apples and oranges; beta-D-glucan found in oats, numerous unnamed polysaccharides found in most plants and psyllium laxatives; and fiber fillers and stabilizers found in practically all processed food, such as guar gum, carrageen, cellulose gum, inulin, and numerous others [link].
In essence, this advice means to avoid the following: dairy because of lactose and fiber stabilizers (yogurt, ice cream, sour cream, cream cheese); fruits rich in pectin (oranges, apples); fruits rich in sugar alcohols (bananas, prunes, prune juice), and food rich in fiber (oatmeal, morning cereals, bran, whole wheat bread, pasta), fiber laxatives; and all processed food with fiber additives.
This is good and easy advice to follow until you consider their next recommendation...
Q. How come they recommend “Increased fiber intake for constipation” if fiber is a well-known gas- and diarrhea-producing substance?
To me, that‘s either the biggest “medical mystery”, or the biggest “medical idiocy,” or simply outrageous negligence, or, perhaps, all of the above. In fact, to unravel this mind-boggling incongruity for myself and others, I wrote a book entitled “Fiber Menace: The Truth About the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease, and Colon Cancer”, and you are welcome to read it.
If you are a skeptical medical professional reading this, and, all things considered, I don‘t blame you a bit for being skeptical, consider the following two quotes from the American College of Gastroenterology Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Task Force [link]:
“Fiber doesn't relieve chronic constipation and all legitimate clinical trials demonstrated no improvement in stool frequency or consistency when compared with placebo.”
“In the management of IBS, psyllium is similar to placebo. In fact, the bloating associated with psyllium use will likely worsen symptoms in an IBS patient.”
Psyllium is a source of soluble and insoluble fibers found in Metamucil-type laxatives, and their digestive properties are identical to all other types of fiber.
Q. Will Loperamide (Imodium) enable IBS recovery?
No, it will not. It may temporarily stop diarrhea by literally paralyzing your intestines, but only to cause severe constipation, because, along with “dizziness, drowsiness, [and] tiredness”, constipation is the most immediate and prominent side effect of Imodium.
Of course, for me — a former pharmacist — there is no surprise here. Imodium is a synthetic opioid (opium-like drug). Just like all opioids, it “kills” the contraction of circular and longitudinal smooth muscles, which line up the stomach, esophagus, intestines, bowel, and major blood vessels. This effectively stops the propulsion of food and feces throughout the entire digestive tract, and, in turn, causes more constipation, more indigestion, more bloating, more flatulence, and stronger cramps.
Just like all opioids, Imodium diminishes blood circulation and oxygen delivery to the brain. This causes dizziness, drowsiness, and tiredness — depression-like symptoms.
Q. Would “tricyclic antidepressants” help my depression and IBS?
Well, since your doctor may think that you are affected by IBS because you are psychotic, and you are miserable from incessant abdominal pain caused by more fiber, and you are depressed from Imodium, these potent antidepressant drugs may indeed keep you away from the psychiatric ward.
Funnily enough, constipation is one of tricyclics‘ most common side effects along with more drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, and muscle and joint aches. So you quickly return to your doctor for even more support and understanding, more fiber to relieve constipation, more painkillers, more Imodium, and even more antidepressants.
Q. Why does the conventional diagnosis of IBS increase the risk of colon cancer?
Not just the colon, but any cancer! A visual examination of the large intestine (i.e. colonoscopy) requires a bowel prep — a thorough cleansing with synthetic laxatives. This procedure damages intestinal flora, disrupts stools, makes resuming normal bowel movements difficult, and may cause intestinal inflammation — the precursor of colorectal polyps and cancers.
In addition to all of the side effects from a bowel prep for a conventional colonoscopy, a single virtual colonoscopy (CT scan) exposes patients to radiation 2,000 to 3,000 times more potent than a single dental X-ray. This dose of radiation, according to the Federal Drugs Administration [link], increases a person's lifetime risk of any cancer to 20%, or one chance in five.
With minor variations, these ineffective and risky diagnostic and treatment guidelines are repeated in endless medical textbooks, references, how-to books, and health-related web sites. Not surprisingly, according to the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders, ”irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects approximately 10-20% [30 to 60 million – ed.] of the general population.” Let's hope you aren't one of them, and if you are — let's get you out of this tangle before it's too late.
At this juncture, you have three choices: (1) Do nothing, and get by with this or that irritating your gut for the rest of your life; (2) Continue with the conventional treatment I just described above, and face the music; or (3) Study this page, follow its recommendations, and recover from IBS.
“Recover” doesn‘t mean that you‘ll be able to eat and drink with reckless abandon just like your happy-go-lucky buddies. Unfortunately, you won‘t and you can‘t because an extended history of IBS and, particularly, its conventional treatment causes damage that isn‘t completely reversible. So if eating and drinking with reckless abandon are your objectives, don‘t bother reading this any further — alas, I am not a magician.
But if you are a realist, then to “recover” means that by following my recommendations: (1) you‘ll be free from abdominal pain and discomfort associated with IBS; (2) you‘ll be able to attain normal stools without laxatives in case of constipation, or fiber and medication in case of diarrhea; (3) you‘ll boost your immune system, energy, stamina, and overall health, and (4) you‘ll significantly reduce your chances of getting colorectal cancer.
Depending on your age and overall health, you may also enjoy several unexpected benefits:
- Improved quality of life. Your energy levels and stamina may increase substantially, particularly from the elimination of pain-relievers, antibiotics, antidepressants, laxatives, and anti-diarrheal drugs. Most of these medicines are systemic, which means they affect your body and mind just as strongly as your bowels.
- Healthier children. If you have young children, you own positive experience will teach you and them the habits of colorectal health (gut sense), and they will grow up healthier, stronger, and well prepared for today‘s demanding and competitive world.
- Higher income. Your work performance and career will enjoy a considerable boost because it‘s next to impossible to be productive, efficient, and sociable while suffering from insomnia, or experiencing day-long abdominal discomfort and flatus, or being affected by mind-altering drugs.
- Reproductive health. If you are a woman, you may find relief from PMS — an oftentimes IBS-related condition. If you can‘t conceive a child without any organic cause, or have been experiencing spontaneous miscarriages, you may be able to overcome these two devastating problems as well.
- Better sex life. If you are sexually active, your sex life will improve dramatically, because you‘ll be free of bloating, flatulence, and abdominal pain, which are particularly bothersome during intercourse. You‘ll also experience stronger orgasms because you‘ll be sufficiently relaxed to enjoy them without fearing embarrassing flatus (gases).
- Significant savings. You‘ll be able to save a bundle of money related to the treatment of IBS-related symptoms and side effects, such as constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, diverticular disease, and numerous others.
- Reduced cancer risk. Finally, you are less likely to succumb to colorectal cancer — the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. This is particularly important for high-risk individuals for colorectal cancers. And with fewer x-rays and drugs — the same applies to all other cancers.
With all these prudent goals in mind, here are the detailed stage-by-stage descriptions of IBS causes, followed by step-by-step recovery guidelines. It will take you less time to study this page than a single visit to a GI specialist. Besides, this information is free to read, safe to use, and tons more effective.
I've suffered for 10-12 years with IBS, and I've followed all the advice given to no avail. You know the advice. Fiber, fiber, fiber and little or no fat. I've written a novel, and in order to market it, I will have to hold book signings. This was a terrifying thought, considering I would go from constipation to "sudden" severe diarrhea. Never knowing when it might strike.
In desperation, I searched the web — again — for an answer, and stumbled upon your website. I'm not doing the victory dance quite yet. But for about three months, I've been eating a normal diet. Moderate fiber, moderate fat, two meals a day. (I'm eating like I did before this happened - which by the way, I think was brought on by a weight loss diet that pushed high fiber, low fat. I ate fiber 5-6 times a day). And from week one I've improved to the point where my system is operating in a nearly normal way. Long story short (too late) I can't thank you enough!" L.W.W., USA (via e-mail)
The following stage-by-stage narrative deconstructs the etiology and unfolding of irritable bowel syndrome. Once IBS is no longer a mystery, you'll have more confidence and motivation to proceed toward your complete recovery and avoid the relapse.
You may not experience some of the symptoms and/or stages described below, but, with minor variations, this is the most common scenario:
Stage 1. Loss of intestinal flora
The loss of indigenous (innate) intestinal flora (bacteria) precedes IBS, and is, in general terms, its initial and primary cause. All the other problems (and causes) get layered in the stages that follow.
Intestinal bacteria are an essential component of normal colon ecology. They form stools, protect the intestinal membrane from bacterial and viral pathogens, govern the primary immune response (phagocytosis), and produce a range of micronutrients, essential for health and longevity.
The two best known byproducts of intestinal flora biosynthesis are vitamin K (responsible for blood coagulation) and biotin (vitamin B-7). Vitamin K deficiency is behind internal bleedings, pernicious anemia, inoperable ulcers, and strokes. Biotin deficiency is behind hair loss, connective tissue disorders (i.e., dermatitis, osteoarthritis, weak nails), and diabetes.
The typical “killers” and causes of intestinal bacteria are all well known. These are ubiquitous antibacterial medicines and compounds (antibiotics and synthetic agents, such as isoniazid, sulfonamide, methenamine, rifampin, hexachlorophene, etc.); antibiotic-laced meat and diary; dental amalgams (black fillings); mercury in fish and seafood; chlorine, arsenic, and lead in drinking water; lead in paint and environment; silverware, common laxatives, food colorings, artificial sweeteners, infectious diseases, intestinal inflammations, colonoscopies, x-rays, radiation, chemo treatments, and numerous others.
Any one of the above factors may lead to partial or complete evisceration of intestinal bacteria, a pathology known as dysbacteriosis (dysbiosis). In turn, dysbacteriosis results in hard stools, either small or large. These two conditions — dysbacteriosis and hard stools precipitate irritable bowel syndrome. Enters Stage 2.
Stage 2. Hard stools
Bacteria are single-cell microorganisms. Just like all cells in nature, they hold water and hold it tight. Intestinal mucus binds these “wet” bacteria with dry inorganic food remnants into moist, soft, and pliable stools. But without bacteria, stools become small, dry, and hard. The transformation of succulent grapes into weathered raisins is a telling analogy:
The raisin-like small stools are a problem because the large intestine wasn't designed to move around small objects, so they get stuck — as in constipation. Unlike raisins, though, small stools dry up even more and become as hard as pebbles.
The pebble-like stools are an even bigger problem because your anus isn't made of steel but of a delicate and sensitive tissue — similar to the inside lining of your nose. Thus the human anus wasn't meant for passing “pebbles” through any more than your teeth were meant for opening beer bottles (even though some of you probably can...)
If you are affected by dysbacteriosis, and your diet is low in fiber, then the hardened stools remain small and dry. If fiber is present, then the hard stools are larger because fiber adds bulk.
You may experience hard stools and remain regular nevertheless because you are an “expert” strainer, or can tolerate pain better than others, or the degree of hardness is still tolerable, or all of the above.
Stage 3: IBS-related constipation
Constipation means irregular stools. A person is considered “officially” constipated when bowel movements are absent over three days. Diagnosing constipation is like reporting a missing person—don't bother calling the police until 24 hours have passed. Ditto, don't bother calling your doctor until three days have passed. If it's only 2.5 days—sorry, you are still "fine!"
For this reason I prefer using the terms impacted stools, hard stools, or costivity—slow in moving hard stools — instead of constipation, which refers to not having stools over three days. This way it's easier to convince people who pass hard stools in “under three days,” (i.e., who are still technically regular) to seek treatment.
Hard stools, costivity, and constipation are commonly reported by people trying out low-fiber diets, such as Atkins‘. It isn't the diet‘s fault that people run into these problems, but having fiber-dependence before commencing the diet.
If you consume plentiful fiber or fiber laxatives, stool hardness may be less apparent. That's, incidentally, why fiber is recommended in the first place. As in the next stage, of course.
Stage 4. Treatment of constipation with fiber
Medical professionals and Dr. Moms alike recommend dietary fiber and fiber laxatives to “naturally” alleviate hardness, particularly when stools are small and dry. Fiber bulks up (enlarges) and moisturizes stools by either retaining water, blocking water absorption, or both.
The most apparent damage from the fiber in enlarged stools is mechanical, related to its sheer physical bulk. Fiber is the only commonly consumed nutrient that reaches the large intestine undigested and expanded up to five times (500%) its original weight. On the other hand, proteins, carbohydrates, and fats leave behind less than 5% of undigested solids.
Here is the same math in weight units: once in the colon, 100 g of fiber turns into 500 g of undigested residue, while 100 g of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates digest down to less than 5 g of solids. Thus, per unit of weight, undigested fiber is 100 times denser than all other nutrients (500 g / 5 g = 100 ). That's why doctors refer to a fiber-free diet as low density and a high-fiber—as a high bulk diet or roughage.
Historically, indigenous diets, even plant-based, were low-density. That‘s because prehistoric people didn't have the means and skills to grow, process, and prepare high-fiber food. For these evolutionary reasons, human digestive organs haven‘t adapted to high-bulk diets, and remain as vulnerable today as they did millennia ago.
Unfortunately, enlarged stools require straining, particularly as you get older. Welcome to Stage 5.
Stage 5. The hallmark of IBS: Straining
Younger people can expel large stools without apparent difficulties because they still have much better control of pelvic and abdominal muscles, stronger intestinal peristalsis, and less resistance from internal hemorrhoids.
Normal defecation requires just as much effort as urination—zero. If straining is necessary, however moderate, it means that the size of stools exceeds the optimal spread of the anal canal.
The anal canal aperture maxes out at 35 mm or 1.4". For normal, notice-free passing, soft and moist stools shouldn‘t be much wider than one‘s index finger or a nickel (21 mm, U.S. currency 5 ¢ coin), and correspondingly smaller in children.
If you need convincing that your anal canal is that narrow, you can perform a digital rectal self-exam. No, you don't need a computer. Just lubricate your pointing finger with petroleum jelly, and slowly insert it into the anus. You will immediately realize just how tight and narrow it is. (This test is called a digital test because “finger” in Latin is “digit.”)
Straining applies strong force by abdominal and pelvic muscles on the colon and rectum to squeeze out stools — just like you would squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste from a spent tube below:
Yes, that's pretty much what happens to the colon and rectum when you strain extra hard. The damage isn't far behind: internal and external hemorrhoidal disease, loss of urge sensation because of anal nerve damage, stubborn anal fissures (skin tears inside anal canal) that won‘t heal, loss of muscle tone and ensuing “lazy gut” syndrome, rectal prolapse, rectocele (rectal wall prolapse into the vagina), diverticular disease, usually lethal colon perforation, and others.
Also, straining wrecks havoc “above and beyond” the colon and rectum—strong abdominal pressure affects all organs situated in the lower abdominal and pelvic cavity: the rest of the colon, small intestine, uterus, bladder, and others.
This damage may manifest itself as obstruction of the small intestine, reflux of fecal matter back into the small intestine, abdominal and inguinal (men‘s) hernias, pelvic cramps, spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), vaginal bleeding, symptoms of PMS, the blockage of fallopian tubes, and other mechanical damage of internal organs.
Straining may also temporarily constrict major blood vessels and cause blood clotting. Stray clots may cause pulmonary embolism, heart attack, or stroke. Elevated blood pressure related to straining may cause cardiac arrest, aortic rupture, internal hemorrhages, strokes, heart attacks, and other major cardiovascular calamities. Even the eyes aren't spared from vessel rupture and related retinal and macular damage.
The vascular problems are made worse by poor blood coagulation—dysbacteriosis results in an acute deficiency of vitamin K—a clotting factor. Normally, vitamin K is synthesized by intestinal bacteria.
Women are expert strainers because they have far greater voluntary control of pelvic muscles than men. In some respects, straining is similar to what's happening during natural childbirth. Not surprisingly, women are affected by major colorectal disorders — particularly hemorrhoidal and diverticular diseases — more often than men.
On the other hand, men have stronger abdominal muscles and are more likely to develop abdominal wall or inguinal (groin) hernias. If you look at weightlifters pumping heavy iron, their facial expressions and grunts aren't that different from guys having a hard time in the loo. But unlike an average Joe in the john, weightlifters wear abdominal binders and groin trusses to prevent herniation. (This may be a good gift idea for the ‘constipated man’ in your life.)
Even children aren't spared from the aftermath of straining—nowadays, hemorrhoids are becoming commonplace even among preschoolers. Just ask any pediatric gastroenterologist.
As you can see, there are plenty of reasons not to strain and even more reasons not to encourage children to strain. Otherwise, it's a straight path to hemorrhoidal disease.
Stage 6. The inevitable side effect of IBS: Internal hemorrhoids
Hard stools and straining, even moderate, cause the gradual enlargement of internal hemorrhoids. That‘s due to the pressure applied by passing stools on the inner walls of the anal canal inside and abdominal and pelvic muscles from the outside.
Internal hemorrhoids aren‘t a “disease,” but a part of the anal canal anatomy—small collagenous pads that cushion passing stools. Their enlargement is akin to calluses on your palms from shoveling snow. According to the experts, by age 50, most adults have asymptomatic enlarged internal hemorrhoids without realizing it.
External hemorrhoids are dilated, varicose veins of the hemorrhoidal plexus. The thrombosis of external hemorrhoids causes swelling and severe pain but rarely bleeding. They do not affect defecation per se but may cause stool withholding and incomplete emptying because of fear of pain and bleeding.
Anal intercourse damages the anal canal similarly to hard stools and straining, only in reverse. Lubrication may help protect the anal canal from laceration, but not from the enlargement of internal hemorrhoids, nerve damage, and muscle tone loss in anal sphincters. Because of the latter, anal intercourse is more likely to lead to fecal incontinence than constipation. This fact is well known to gastroenterologists, who specialize in anorectal restorative surgeries for men and women who engage in anal intercourse.
(Yes, I realize that some penile implements are wider than 1.4” (35 ml), and have a hard time explaining how it's possible to insert them into the anus. But, then, I tell myself—if some people can swallow swords and others can swallow fists, then, with practice, patience, and disregard for common sense, everything is possible.)
The very first symptoms of anal canal damage are pain and bleeding. “Welcome” to the next stage!
Stage 7. Hemorrhoid-related pain and bleeding
The enlargement of internal hemorrhoids from straining leads to further constriction of an already narrow anal canal. While passing through a constrained anal canal, hard stools lacerate its delicate skin. Laceration causes bleeding or streaking of stools with bright red blood.
Anal pain may differ in intensity, depending on the degree of nerve damage. Older adults and diabetics may no longer feel any pain because the nerve damage is complete. But when it isn't, the anal plexus region is quite sensitive, and the pain, even from slight pressure, may be quite sharp.
Seeing blood and experiencing pain brings about the next problem—the sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious decision to withhold stools to avoid or prevent an unpleasant experience. It causes an incomplete emptying of the bowels and is particularly common among toddlers, who can tolerate pain the least.
Stage 8. The hallmark of IBS: Incomplete emptying
An average adult's large intestine is 4.5 feet (1.5 m) long and can accumulate a significant volume of feces. Many people routinely retain 5-10 or more lbs of impacted stools without realizing it because of incomplete emptying.
If a person isn't overweight, an experienced physician may detect retained stools during a manual exam of the lower abdomen. Because minerals aren't 100% transparent to the imaging source, retained stools can be seen with various degrees of clarity on imaging scans, such as x-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography, and MRI.
A person on a fiber-free diet can go without a single bowel movement for a month or longer and not experience any noticeable side effects. With just 100 to 200 grams of stool generated daily under these conditions, the large intestine has enough holding capacity to accumulate several weeks' worth of stools after they dry up.
When the colon is finally filled up, retained stools are pushed down and out into the rectum, where they may stimulate painful defecation. This way, more room is freed on top for the newer feces to pile up and repeat this cycle again and again.
When defecation is no longer attainable, the situation is called fecal impaction. In this case, there are four possible outcomes, and none of them good: (1) elective manual disimpaction or surgery; (2) colon perforation; (3) fecal reflux (feces flow back into the small intestine; (4) intestinal obstruction and ensuing necrosis.
Okay, enough scarecrows. Normally, the large intestine should contain well under 2 lb (1 kg) of retained feces, or two to three days' worth. A healthy stool shouldn‘t exceed 100-120 grams per bowel movement*, usually twice daily.
People on high-fiber diets expel on average 300 to 500 g per bowel movement*, usually once daily. Longer intervals between bowel movements increase total stool weight, but not linearly, because of stools' drying out. (*Source: R.F. Schmidt, G. Thews; Human Physiology, 2nd edition. 29.7.)
As incomplete emptying progresses, retained stools compress, enlarge, harden up, dry out, and let newer feces pile up on top to do the same. Incomplete emptying results in impacted stools, described in the next stage of irritable bowel syndrome evolution.
Stage 9. The hallmark of IBS: Impacted stools
This process of stool impaction is similar to sausage manufacturing—a butcher uses a stuffing machine to fill in the casings, ties the ends, and hangs them out to dry. That‘s why impacted stools and certain brands of dry sausages look very much alike:
The photo above is "stage nine" cured dry chorizo sausage. Only the "sausage" inside one's gut can get even more extensive and longer—around 3 to 5 feet, and correspondingly heavier. The braided shape of the sausage mirrors the haustra pattern (small pouches) along the colon's walls. (Type 2 on Bristol Stool Scale].
With that photo in mind, it's easy to understand why so many people suffer from the ravages of P.M.S., prostatitis, constipation, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease, and, eventually, polyposis and colon cancer. Try imagining this kind of "sausage" inhabiting your large intestine years on end and not getting your colon irritated or your genitourinary organs not trampled. Yuck!
Impacted stools often bypass anal sinuses (the folds between the colon and rectum) and enter the rectum (typically, the rectum chamber is empty). This condition can be determined via rectal self-exam. The presence of stools in the rectum may cause pain, discomfort, and the feeling of incomplete emptying—the condition is known as levator syndrome (from levator ani muscle).
When the colon and rectum can't accumulate any more stools, the incoming digestive fluids may seep over and cause a diarrhea-like condition, which is called “paradoxical diarrhea.” But the real paradox in this, pardon the pun, “shitty” situation is that very few primary care physicians are familiar with it.
Thus, instead of disimpacting a sufferer (removing impacted stools by hand, a specialized procedure usually performed in hospitals), doctors may recommend even more fiber to "restore stools." When the additional fiber has no place to go, it causes obstruction, perforation, or small intestine necrosis. These conditions are rarely survivable and always require massive abdominal surgery to excise the affected sections.
Here is even more bad news: unlike small, soft, and moist normal stools, impacted stools cause mechanical abrasions of the mucous membranes. In turn, these abrasions open a pathway to various pathogens into the inner reaches of the intestinal membranes and precipitate precancerous polyps. Along with the lack of protective bacteria, I believe this is the PRIMARY cause of colorectal cancers. One more reason to restore proper colon ecology! Only then can you avoid impacted stools, prevent dysbacteriosis, and restore intestinal flora.
Stage 10. The hallmark of IBS: Abdominal cramps
The enlarged stools fill up the large intestine and produce considerable pressure on internal organs, particularly the bladder, uterus, and fallopian tubes among women and the prostate gland among men. Since all of these organs have strong innervation and are quite sensitive, you may feel considerable pain, specific to premenstrual syndrome (P.M.S.) before and during periods. Men may experience heightened sexual tension from the pressure on the prostate gland. Both genders may be affected by frequent urination but without any significant volume of urine.
At this point, many people turn to "nutritionally-orientated" doctors and "natural" websites, which enthusiastically recommend restoring bacterial flora with all sorts of preparations. Great and well-worn advice by now, except for one little detail: mixing fiber with bacteria in one's gut is like making compost in one's backyard.
The round-the-clock fermentation of the “compost pile” produces copious gases, sharp acids, and toxic alcohols. Gases expand the large intestine. The expansion causes bloating. The bloated intestines squeeze neighboring organs and may cause obstructions, gastritis, heartburn, genital cramps, and so on. Acids irritate the mucosal membranes and may cause inflammation. Methanol—one of the alcohols—seeps into the blood and causes hangover-like side effects. Alas, not enough ethanol is produced to at least enjoy the experience.
The degree of suffering from abdominal cramps and intoxication varies greatly depending on one's age, gender, health, occupation, character, genetics, amounts of fiber, types of fiber, sources of fiber, and a whole load of other factors itemized in minutiae throughout this site and in Fiber Menace.
For as long as all of the above is tolerable, it's broadly accepted as a part of living. Between 10% and 15% of all Americans endure diagnosed or undiagnosed irritable bowel syndrome as just described. When the going gets tough, the tough go to see their doctors.
Stage 11: Medical treatment of IBS
Conservative treatment for severe abdominal distress relies on antibiotics — along with more fiber and/or fiber laxatives. First, antibiotics kill any remaining intestinal bacteria, terminate "composting," and alleviate intestinal inflammation. This tactic stops bloating and flatulence caused by gases and acidity produced by the fermentation of fiber. Antibiotics don't reduce stool size or relieve constipation. They may help to arrest diarrhea by removing and/or reducing its causes.
Next comes fiber: “Dietary fiber can help many patients by absorbing water and solidifying stool. It may benefit patients with either constipation or diarrhea.” So advises The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, an unquestionable “gold standard” reference for most American doctors.
And so we go down the path of "substance abuse:" cramps—antibiotics—fiber— more cramps—more antibiotics—more fiber! In other words, you become dependent on fiber and/or laxatives.
The absence of bacteria requires more fiber or laxatives to deal with impacted stools. Newly consumed insoluble fiber acts as a plunger by pushing them out. That's, essentially, what fiber is — a plumber's plunger. And the straining is its handle.
To make the passage possible, soluble fiber or laxatives lubricate and break down hardened stools, just like Drano® would hair clog. They soften them up somewhat and when consumed in excess, stimulate diarrhea.
Too bad your "plumbing" isn't made from cast iron. Even then, this stage may last and last — until one sad day, your gut "can't take it anymore" and hits you "on the head" with a leak!
Stage 12. A nasty side of IBS: Intermittent diarrhea
At one point, impacted stools, or inflammatory disease, or both, may cause profuse diarrhea—an innate physiological reaction to "self-cleanse" the affected large intestine, similar to vomiting.
After a while, the colon becomes "as clean as a whistle," but diarrhea disrupts the colon's ecology. Fiber is recommended to "restore formed stools." Formed stools usher back constipation and impacted stools, and this cycle repeats itself over and over again.
Of course, these well-known outcomes describe the classical symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome—round-the-clock abdominal distress accompanied by alternating patterns of constipation and diarrhea. At the same time, according to the doctors, "there is nothing wrong inside."
Back to "square one," unless... unless you follow my suggestions and break out from this trap, otherwise it's down to Stage #13. Oh, how appropriate!
The vicious cycles of intermittent constipation and diarrhea repeat over and over again until more severe complications arise. It may be hard-to-treat ulcerative colitis, or a devastating Crohn's disease, or excruciatingly painful hemorrhoids, or dreadful appendicitis, or gut-piercing diverticulitis, or a rarely survivable perforated colon, or deadly colon cancer, and God only knows what else.
When a person recovers from the initial treatment, more fiber is prescribed again to prevent all these conditions. Not surprisingly, up to 40% of people with ulcerative colitis undergo proctocolectomy—surgical removal of colon and rectum. Otherwise, they may bleed to death or die from colon cancer.
A similar pattern applies to Crohn's disease, hemorrhoidal disease, diverticular disease, cancer survivors, and pretty much everything else: fiber, more fiber, more darn fiber, until one day, no patient—no problem. And it all started with the accidental death of some "dirty little bugs" and fiber dependence in Stage 1.
The next section explains how to reverse the causes of IBS naturally and roll-back your state of health to pre-stage one status — proper colon ecology, normal stools, and IBS symptoms.This approach may not make you again "as good as new" — some of the above damage is irreversible, but it certainly beats becoming "as good as dead" if you follow the conventional IBS treatment. IBS. Recovery Guidelines
s I have already remarked in the introduction, the IBS treatment guidelines in The Merck Manual represent what's known as the standard of care, or "a diagnostic and treatment process that a clinician should follow for a certain type of patient, illness, or clinical circumstance," according to Webster's Medical Dictionary.
— Okay, okay, I'll have more fiber tomorrow!
This "standard of care" approach is taught in medical schools and residencies and followed closely by the majority of the US medical doctors, who (a) may not know another (or better) approach, and/or (b) use it to insulate themselves from malpractice lawsuits by deferring to their training, peer-reviewed protocols, and the said standard of care.
It's important to note that the "standard of care" doesn't mean "best care," "effective care," or even "good care." At best, it reflects the current consensus and prevailing groupthink of individuals and institutions, which profit from the treatment (or mistreatment in the case of IBS) of GI disorders.
Unlike The Merck Manual and similar references, this page enumerates in plain language the exact physiological causes of irritable bowel syndrome and offers practical, inexpensive, and self-administered treatment guidelines that provide full and rapid recovery, assuming your condition hasn't progressed far beyond IBS.
Even then, you still will find excellent (if not full) relief from bloating, flatulence, constipation, diarrhea, cramps, and pain, except it may take you longer, and you'll need to manage intercurrent conditions, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, or diverticulosis, more attentively.
I encourage you to share the information on this site and in Fiber Menace with your physicians. They won't find anything contradictory in these texts to the tenets of human anatomy, physiology, biology, biochemistry, and pathology. To help them (and you), this site and my books are all thoroughly referenced and, with few exceptions, accessible over the Internet.
Throughout the years, scores of medical professionals have read my books, heard my radio talk shows, attended my seminars, and scrutinized my web publications, and not one, I repeat, not a single one has ever sent me a note pointing out an error in my analysis or recommendations.
If anything, I hear back praise and encouragement — doctors and nurses are people too, and they suffer from digestive disorders just as much or more (because they are more likely to follow Merck-type advice) as the general population.
There are no risks or side effects of my recommendations because I do not propose drugs, lopsided diets, or invasive procedures. Your only risk is to ignore them and progress to inflammatory bowel diseases such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, or degenerative diseases of the GI tract, such as enlarged hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, or colorectal cancers. Some readers, particularly medical professionals trained in the so called evidence-based medicine, may respond to these claims with a well-expected challenge: Konstantin, prove it!
"Sorry," it would be against the laws of medical ethics (and civil and criminal statutes) to conduct a randomized controlled medical trial with a known negative outcome (for patients in the control group who would follow Merck's guidelines).
Merck classifies IBS as constipation-predominant or diarrhea-predominant. Some people are diagnosed with IBS without experiencing either constipation or diarrhea. Your steps to recovery will depend on your particular type:
Step 1. Wean yourself off the fiber. If you have been consuming dietary fiber or taking fiber laxatives, you'll have to break the dependence on these substances first because it's impossible to overcome IBS while consuming fiber. Skip this step if it isn't applicable in your case. Follow the recommendations in the Overcoming Fiber Dependence guide.
Step 2-A. Normalize stools for constipation-predominant IBS. Follow the recommendations in the Constipation guide. As soon as you complete this step, you'll find substantial relief from flatulence, bloating, abdominal pain, and cramps.
Step 2-B. Normalize stools for diarrhea-predominant IBS. If you can't abate diarrhea on your own by reducing or eliminating fiber and using over-the-counter medications such as Imodium, ask your doctor to test your stool for C.difficile infection.
Do this quickly; otherwise, this condition may cause significant anorectal damage (i.e., hemorrhoids, anal fissures, nerve damage) and eventually turn into IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease — a euphemism for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
If you are already affected by IBD (such as ulcerative colitis), you may not be able to reverse it entirely on your own because they have a significant autoimmune component. Still, all of the strategies described on this site and in Fiber Menace may help you a great deal.
Step 2-C: Normalize stools for IBS without either constipation or diarrhea. This condition is common in younger people and explained here. In this case, proceed with the Hydro-CM program.
Step 3. Restore intestinal flora and heal bowel inflammation (if any). This step restores proper colon ecology and stool morphology and protects you from IBD, polyps, and colorectal cancer. Follow the recommendations in the Dysbacteriosis (Dysbiosis) guide.
Step 4. Restore anorectal sensitivity. This step is essential for late-stage IBS, particularly constipation or diarrhea-predominant because both conditions damage anorectal sensitivity, so you don't experience the defecation urge sensation. This sensation is essential to maintain regularity and enjoy a complete emptying of the bowels. Follow the recommendations in the Restoring Anorectal Sensitivity guide.
Step 5. Stabilize and maintain your recovery. It isn't, really, a step, but a final and ongoing process. Use all of the available information on this site and in Fiber Menace to prevent an IBS relapse.
You should see and feel improvements soon after you start. Depending on your age and degree of acquired, organic (irreversible) damage, it takes three to six months to become completely free from IBS and its most bothersome and offensive symptoms.
It takes considerably more time to desynthesize hypersensitive nerves (visceral hyperalgesia) inside your abdomen; to reverse unconditional, endocrine reflexes (excessive secretion of certain substances in anticipation of food and stress); to reduce autoimmune reactions to common food allergens, and to readjust to a new style of nutrition. Just as with IBS itself, the actual length of time will depend on your age, health, and a degree of commitment and compliance with proper diet and supplements.
If you are relatively young and healthy, you won't have to think much about IBS after full recovery. For older people with a long history of IBS, staying free from IBS will require a life-long commitment and vigilance. Whatever it takes, it's better to be healthy and a bit preoccupied with your diet and colon than to be in pain, unhealthy, miserable, on a diet, and preoccupied with your colon even more. That is if you still have one!
The optimal nutrition for IBS depends on your age, health, and extent of your condition. “Optimal nutrition” means not just “best” or “permitted” nutrients, but also the frequency of eating, food preparation techniques, meal composition, and your ability to properly digest consumed food.
These considerations are commonly ignored or overlooked in the routine treatment of IBS. Consequentially, most people consume presumably a “healthy” diet, but only to dig themselves into even more problems.
Here are the principal recommendations:
Reduce the frequency of eating to two, maximum three times daily. Do not snack or drink fluids between meals. Do not chew gum. Make middle-day meals as low in fat as possible. Why? Any time you open your mouth and begin chewing and swallowing, particularly food rich in fat, the body goes through the motions of the gastrocolic reflex and mass peristalsis, or a contraction of the entire digestive tract..
These contractions are the primary cause of cramping, abdominal pains, and/or excessive bowel movements that may be confused with diarrhea-dominant IBS when they are semi-liquid.
Standard dietary advice for people with IBS is the complete opposite — eat smaller portions more often, snack between meals, drink plenty of fluids, etc. This commonplace ignorance has little to do with either IBS or the physiology of digestion.
In the absence of pain and cramping, frequent stools are the norm, not a symptom of IBS, regardless of what your doctor may have been telling you all along. These stools remain unformed simply because your colon isn't getting enough time to remove moisture and form them.
Consuming excess fiber, particularly soluble, may also complicate things by blocking the absorption of fluids and causing mild irritation of the intestinal mucosal membrane. These factors may stimulate peristalsis and excessive bowel movements, particularly in young and healthy people who aren't yet affected by nerve damage and/or bad habits such as withholding stools.
Eliminate hard-to-digest proteins. These are casein — a protein found in dairy (milk, ice cream, cream cheese) and gluten — a protein found in wheat, oats, bran, barley, malt, ice creams, processed meats (chicken nuggets), gravies, brewer's yeast, and derivative products (bread, pasta, morning cereals, beer, soy sauce, cakes, pastries, etc.)
Why? Because humans lack the enzymes to digest these proteins, and they are highly allergenic, particularly for people with digestive disorders. When undigested proteins pass into the intestines, they petrify (rot), cause gases, bloating, and low-level poisoning expressed as severe fatigue, foul mood, muscle pain, nausea, and so on.
Adapt your diet content and volume to your age. Most adults past 45-50 years old, particularly in the United States, suffer from age-onset gastric deficiency (AOGD, a term I coined), or a low level of digestive enzymes and gastric acid in the stomach.
This condition causes indigestion, heartburn, delayed stomach emptying, hiatus- hernia, gastritis, duodenitis, peptic ulcers, stomach, and esophageal cancers, and so on. AOGD is exacerbated by antacid medication, alcohol, mixed meals, overeating, frequent eating, inadequate chewing (habitual bad teeth, poor-fitting dentures), and overhydration. AOGD starts a chain of events that lead to a condition known as gastroenterocolitis, or an inflammatory disease of the entire GI tract.
There is only one way to adapt to AOGD: reduce the number of daily meals to two or three; do not eat mixed meals (i.e., proteins and too many carbohydrates); eat protein-containing meals once daily (the last meal is best), and follow other rules described on this site and in my books. This approach is described in detail in Fiber Menace, chapter X.
Always consume fluids 30 to 60 minutes before meals. It allows water to pass the stomach chamber into the small intestine and get assimilated there almost immediately. Any fluids consumed after meals remain "locked" in the stomach until digestion is complete; hence you can't quickly satisfy thirst even if you drink plenty of fluids. Excess fluids dilute already deficient gastric juices and cause indigestion or delayed digestion. Healthy children and young adults can consume plentiful fluids with meals or after with apparent impunity because they have smaller (less stretched out) stomachs, so the excess fluids are "pushed" out into the small intestine; they enjoy better teeth and have a much higher level of acid and enzymes in the digestive juices.
- Take recommended professional-grade supplements and, if necessary, digestive enzymes. They are essential to augment nutrients and enzymes missing from any restricted diet, recover from long-term malnutrition caused by IBS and IBD, and compensate for age- and disease-related problems with micronutrients' assimilation. There is a great deal of talk going on about supplements causing harm. If you consider the sub-par quality of consumer-grade supplements that most people are taking, this talk is fully justified [link].
Maintaining proper nutrition is one of the most challenging tasks for any person affected by digestive disorders. It isn't because there is anything specific or particular about it, but because eating (and overeating) became social phenomena; because it's so hard to keep a different diet from a healthy partner; because restaurants don't cater to people with digestive disorders; because most presumably healthy foods are atrocious, industrial junk; because the art and habit of nutritious and straightforward home cooking have been lost by most Americans born and raised in the fast-food era; because there are so many enticements to overconsume; and because so many people refuse to acknowledge their aging bodies, and fail to adjust to new realities.
In any event, when confronted with the choice of "keeping up with the Joneses" vis-à-vis living without IBS, drugs, and fear of colon cancer, I hope you'll choose the latter. And if you are still relatively young, and your experience with IBS was brief and fleeting, most likely, you'll be able to continue eating with blissful (or reckless) abandon for a good chunk of time. Assuming, of course, that you fix the IBS first, stay off fiber, and guard your gut from all of the perils mentioned on this site and in Fiber Menace.
The FAQ section below expands the nutritional guidelines considerably. I also recommend to review the rest of this site, and the discussion of transition away from a fiber-dependent diet in Chapter 11, Avoiding the Perils of Transition in Fiber Menace.
Frequently Asked Questions
I was affected by IBS for most of my adult life. I can easily trace its origins to my mother's insistence that I never use public restrooms, to indiscriminate use of antibiotics before I became aware of their perils, to dental amalgams that I had for many years, to fiber laxatives that I took for chronic constipation, and, finally, to years of a high-fiber, vegetarian diet.
I am IBS-free for over two decades. Unfortunately, by the time I had learned all this, enlarged internal hemorrhoids and reduced anorectal sensitivity had already been “set in stone.” Luckily, I don't suffer from them for as long as I follow all of the same recommendations described above.
So my interest in and the knowledge of this subject is far from abstract — I am not exactly a nun teaching sex education classes from textbooks written by a celibate monk.
Still, one man's journey through hell isn't enough to plot a path to heaven for another. That's why my work is so explicitly thorough, referenced, and detailed, and why it took me almost ten years after my recovery from IBS to contemplate, research, and write this page.
Good luck and be well,
Re: “the causes of IBS are still a mystery.”
There is nothing mysterious about IBS. Its causes are well-known and well-studied functional conditions, such as dysbacteriosis, suppressing stools, hard stools, excess dietary fiber, common food allergens, laxatives, and side effects of medications, and some others. All of them can be reversed reasonably well, with minimal effort, and without a doctor.
The Merck Manual, on the other hand, recommends screening patients for inflammations, ulcers, polyps, and other pathologies with IBS-like symptoms.
This approach is similar to using radiology (x-rays) and endoscopy to diagnose indigestion while ignoring to check for inadequate acidity, low enzymes, lousy diet, and poor-fitting dentures — the four principal causes of impaired digestion. No wonder then, when gastritis or ulcers aren't found, indigestion becomes a mystery.
None of it is surprising. In the general paradigm of allopathic medicine (which forms Merck's diagnostic and treatment framework), a disease isn't a disease unless it has a diagnostic procedure or prescription drugs attached to it.
Unfortunately for patients with IBS — a functional condition completely outside of Merck‘s framework — this reality introduces harmful diagnostic procedures, the side effects of unnecessary drugs, and more health problems down the road.
Re: Aggressive medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
A nutritional approach to GI disorders described on this site and Fiber Menace may be practical for ulcerative colitis's early stages. It should always be tried before starting "shock and awe" treatment with antibiotics, steroids, and immunodepressants.
It may also enhance the treatment and improve Crohn's disease's outlook, but not really "fix it" because this condition has a significant autoimmune component that can't be controlled by diet alone.
This approach works well because a great deal of U.C.-related intestinal inflammation may result from gastroenteritis, so a gradual recovery must begin at the very top of the digestive tract.
Later stages of U.C. require a more thorough and intensive therapy, determined by your physician. But the nutritional approach is the same.
Initially, I described nutritional intervention for ulcerative colitis in my earlier Russian-language books. According to limited accounts from readers who followed it, they have recovered and remained in remission for as long as they maintained vigilance because ulcerative colitis might be easily set off again by preexisting trigger factors.
Re: “Criticism” of The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Some people may get mad at me for suggesting that their revered Merck Manual may be wrong, and who am I to criticize it?
Most of the Merck Manual's shortcomings and biases are heavily influenced by the drugs-driven ways of it's publisher and a charter member of the Big Pharma — Merck & Co. Inc. The borderline between influence and profit is a very narrow one, and it forms an approach that may initially have good intentions, but not necessarily good outcomes.
Besides, if Merck & Co. could err so “deadly” with Vioxx or Fosamax, they can err just as much with The Merck Manual, because its editorial and professional scrutiny is nowhere near the hoops reserved for prescription drugs prior to their review by the FDA.
To be genuinely credible, trustworthy, and useful to doctors and patients alike, The Merck Manual should be fully divested from its ignominious parent and obliged to follow disclosure rules and transparency similar to the rest of the academic medical press.
You and I aren't alone consuming fiber in the name of our health only to suffer unknowingly from the scourge of IBS and its countless complications. And the more you suffer, the more fiber you are told to consume so that the Big Agra, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine can keep minting blood money from selling you more drugs, more toxic laxatives, more colonoscopies, and more surgeries.
According to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, as many as 20% of the adult population — that's close to 50 million Americans — are affected by IBS [link]. One of these people may be your close friend, colleague, or relative, or a child. But you may not even know about it because most people we know don't usually discuss the goings-on inside their guts.
So, just like I shared with you all that I know about fiber's devastating role in the pathogenesis of IBS, please click one or more of the buttons below to share this critical information with the people you love!
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Burton Marsh reaches for the crank on his restored 1924 American LaFrance Brockway Torpedo fire engine at his home in Limestone County. Old engines made into modern marvels
MOORESVILLE -- Burton Marsh is a master restorer of anything mechanical.
His farm and home museum on Rock House Road affirm his ingenuity. He energizes cars and tractors, portable sawmill steam engines and flywheel engines for pulling gristmills, well pumps, wood saws, washing machines and shop tools.
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The German-born expressionist artist Rolf Nesch (1893-1975) spent 25 years of his life living in Ål. The Nesch Museum displays 78 of his original works, and is the world's largest permanent, public exhibition of Rolf Nesch’s art. The museum exhibits drawings, prints, sculptures and collages.
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Some examples of Rolf Nesch's works. The pictures can be from other exhibits than the Nesch Museum
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So does mine!
By the way, do you remember what your screen on time was for that day?
I normally go 2:30+ with 40% screen brightness. I use the crap out of it and normally get 12-16 hours of usage. But it is so weird to see it gain 3% or so without touching it for a hour or more. Also, I didn't mean for this to sound like a fishing thread, whatever that may be.
Seeing battery percentage go up without being plugged in ins't necessarily a defect. Phones may read read slightly lower battery charge levels when the battery is being drained at a heavy rate.
Disclaimer: I'm usually pretty poor with analogies, but I'll try anyway. This information is to the best of my knowledge, and of experience working with similar batteries and power systems.
Imagine blowing up a balloon, and holding it closed between two fingers. This is your battery. Relaxing your fingers slightly to allow only a small stream of air out would equate to standard battery drain. You open the mouth of the balloon for two seconds only, letting out as much air as can get out in that time. This simulates heavy phone usage. The overall volume of air inside the balloon may not have dropped by a very large percentage, if you're reading the "charge" of the battery by measuring the pressure of air inside the balloon (read: electrons/electrons' flow rate), you may read a lower "charge" during those two seconds than is accurate. You can easily test this to try and replicate it. Turn LTE on, do what you can to lower your signal strength, turn the brightness up, play games, stream HD videos, etc. for somewhere around ten minutes. Heavy usage is your friend . Then, turn on airplane mode, clear all of your recent apps, and let the phone sit. Check your battery usage after a short while.
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Mezőkövesd, the Heart of Hungary's Matyó Country
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For some reason, I never thought I'd see a Hungarian man in a skirt! These photos are fabulous! V
These are precious. I'm glad that in those days the men knew enough to put on their best dress for the wedding, even the leftmost fellow with the rakish tilt of the hat.
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You already know how much we adore Lego at Bit Rebels, and this ad campaign is just another reason why. Apparently this came out a few years ago, but I just saw it for the first time today, and I absolutely have to share it with you. It is a classic worth remembering.
The simplicity and pureness of this message matches the simple awesomeness of the Lego blocks themselves. Just like we often look into the sky and create a story for the images we see in the clouds, these Lego shadows offer us the same opportunity for creative thinking.
These ads were designed by Blattner Brunner. I love the colors, the shapes and the whole concept. No wonder so many people are still writing about this several years later. According to mymodernmet, “Using shadows, they tell us that it’s simply our imagination that makes these blocks come alive and, that through our experience, we can see anything through them.” It doesn’t get much better than this. Very, very well done.
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Sam Greer was surrounded.
Gun drawn, the Vancouver pioneer and former Union soldier leaned against the back door of his beachfront shack, and waited.
“Open this door, Greer,” a voice shouted.
It belonged to Deputy Sheriff Tom Armstrong of the New Westminster police. It was early morning in September of 1891 and, moments earlier, Armstrong had arrived with a posse—three provincial police and a group of heavies hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Their goal, after seven years of legal wrangling, was to serve Greer and his family with a Writ of Eviction that would displace them from their own land.
Greer had other plans.
“Get away from there,” he retorted, “or things are going to get hot for you.”
He had seen them coming. The front door was barred, his wife Louisa and their daughters safely inside the cabin—their home for almost a decade. Outside, accompanying the posse, was Francis Carter-Cotton, owner of the Vancouver Daily World, who would later catalogue the incident in painstaking detail.
“Open the door,” Armstrong repeated.
Greer said nothing. Instead, he shoved the muzzle of his rifle through the back door, and started firing.
“Some half-dozen of the bullets struck and entered Mr. Armstrong’s left cheek,” Carter-Cotton wrote, “one also going through his clothes and burying itself in his chest over his heart.”
Shocked, the police and railroad heavies retreated. But it wasn’t long before they would return in force. And the incident would prove to be the climactic chapter in the struggle between a handful of families, and the largest corporation in the country—a struggle that would ultimately lead to the creation of what’s known today as Kitsilano Beach.
For more than 130 years, real estate has been Vancouver’s biggest industry, and during much of the 20th century, there was no bigger player in the property development game than the CPR. As it moved west across Canada, the railroad held immense power to make or break communities, and used this influence to demand large swaths of free land from both the Crown and private landowners. The land grant around Burrard Inlet was the largest in the country, including much of the land in modern-day Coal Harbour, and on the downtown side of False Creek. Sales of that land would eventually reap the company more money than every other company town in Canada combined—to say nothing of the vast wealth gained by its executives and their friends, who used inside information for speculative gain.
During the late 1880s, the railroad had shaped virtually every aspect of civic growth, from the location of the downtown core (centered around their property on modern-day Granville Street), to the creation of Stanley Park (unable to secure the federal land for sale, they petitioned Ottawa to turn it into a park, thus securing themselves against dropping property values), to the name of the city itself (President W.C. Van Horne decided on “Vancouver”, in spite of local and provincial opposition). In addition to their holdings in the West End and around Coal Harbour, the CPR worked feverishly to acquire as much waterfront property along the south side of False Creek as possible—land that included the Greer’s, and their immediate neighbours to the west: the Squamish village of Snauq. The ancestral home of the Khatsahlano family, Snauq had been designated as “Indian Reserve No. 6” during the Royal Engineer’s Survey of 1869, and by 1877, had been expanded from its initial 37 acres to 80. This presented a problem for the railway. Provisions of the Indian Act and Railway Act mandated that any reserve lands appropriated by the CPR would require consultation with and compensation for the communities living there.
And the Khatsahlanos weren’t just any family.
Within the hierarchy of the Coast Salish, they were about as high-ranking as they came, with a home at Snauq, and another at Chaythoos (in modern-day Stanley Park). Their family’s habitation of the area went back at least three generations (although archaeological evidence of First Nations activity goes back thousands of years before that), and August Jack Khatsalano—then only a boy—would go on to succeed his father as the head of the Squamish nation. That said, they had already been displaced from one ancestral home, when the CPR’s machinations led to the creation of Stanley Park and the removal of the families who lived there. To add insult to injury, the body of August Jack’s father, buried in an above-ground mausoleum near their home, was moved to Squamish, and a midden—containing the remains of generations of ancestors— was used to pave the road.
While not as impressive as the inhabitants of Snauq, the Greer family’s habitation of the area nonetheless went back more than a decade. Having purchased nearly 200 acres of prime beachfront property on Burrard Inlet back in 1884, Sam and his wife went on to build a quaint homestead for their growing family. Unfortunately, given the land’s immense value for development, the Greers quickly ran afoul of the CPR. Already, the railroad had spent the better part of a decade attempting to get its hands on the land (which it had earmarked as a beach resort), in a fight that was then making its way to the Supreme Court. Initially, the railroad had tried gentler tactics: Van Horne first enlisted local speculator Gideon Robertson to make an offer on the property, but Greer —known for his pronounced stubborn streak—indignantly refused. Undeterred, the company began working to undermine the legitimacy of his claim, taking him to court with allegations that the original land title paperwork was forged. This too proved unsuccessful. But while fighting the matter in the courts, the CPR began treating the land as if it were already theirs, erecting telegraph lines along the property, and having a Writ of Eviction drawn up. Despite these efforts, public opinion—including that of major newspapers like the World, was largely on Greer’s side.
“They say the CPR wanted title to the land but the government was afraid to give it to them, fearing some after action,” explained city pioneer H.P. McCraney, “but [the government] said to the CPR that, if they could get Sam out of the way, or at least if the CPR would guarantee quiet possession for ten years, they would give the company the title.”
But Greer had no intention of staying quiet. And by 1891, the CPR was growing impatient. Armstrong and a crew of deputies had already been dispatched earlier in the year, crowbars and axes in hand, with orders to remove the family from their property.
“When we got there Sam was not at home,” explained deputy Arthur Langley, in an interview with city archivist JS Matthews, “but his wife was, and she objected strenuously; raising trouble. Finally, under the direction of the Sheriff, Charleson and his men took off the door, and commenced carrying the furniture outside. Well. Then Sam came along; evidently he was out around some place, and he also started to interfere with the Sheriff’s orders, stopping the men, and the Sheriff put him under arrest.”
For a moment, Greer seemed to capitulate. He insisted he would come quietly, and stepped inside to change his clothes. A moment later, he emerged brandishing an axe. And while Greer wasn’t prosecuted for that incident, his fortunes were about to change. Two days after the shootout with Armstrong, a second delegation of police descended on the property and arrested him on charges of attempted murder. Within the hour, as Greer languished in a cell, and before ownership had even been decided in the courts, deputies began removing the furniture and his family from the property.
“You may shoot me if you like,” Greer’s wife said, as reported in the Sept 22nd, 1891 issue of the World. “You may as well kill me as take the best of me away, and then want to turn me out during his absence.”
But it was no good.
“The gang of men then started to work,” Francis Carter-Cotton wrote, “taking the furniture out of the house and loading it on to a box-car, amidst the loud scream of one of the little girls.”
“Sam made one terrible mistake,” Captain J. Hampton Bole later said, to J.S. Matthews. “If he had not fired that gun at Tom Armstrong, he would have held his property. That mistake cost him the possession of part of our city. Public opinion was so strong that the CPR would have had to have given in; the people would have torn up the rails as fast as they laid them.”
“Well,” Louisa Greer said, as she watched crews dismantle her home. “I’ve gone through a good deal in my life, but this beats everything I ever saw.”
Within the hour, those same crews would have to bodily remove her from the property. Sam Greer went on to spend 30 years petitioning the government for compensation, to no avail.
The inhabitants of Snauq suffered a similar fate.
In order to avoid consultation with the Squamish community, and to more quickly secure rights to their land, the CPR employed a system of legal tricks that had served them in good stead elsewhere in the country: they argued in court that Reserve lands were private property—a much simpler process, which only demanded a certificate from the Minister of Railways, and thus allowed them to leave the communities out of the process altogether. Then they set a route for a right-of-way, did their own independent valuation of the land, and offered the residents a pittance to move. To that end, they submitted a woefully underdeveloped plan to the government in the spring of 1886, claiming the region was of vital importance to their operation (in a private letter, Van Horne admitted that they had no immediate plans for the land, and would figure it out once they had removed the First Nations). So certain were they of success, they began laying tracks and posting notices before the matter had even been decided.
But during the valuation process, they hit a snag: ordinarily, government employees didn’t bother to verify the CPR’s figures (often ridiculously far below market value), choosing instead to take the company at their word. However, when Indian Affairs Superintendent Israel Wood Powell visited the region, he derided the company’s valuation as an “absurdly small nominal sum”(the CPR’s valuation priced the land at $55.60 per acre, when in fact it was worth more than $1800). The railway did manage to acquire certain portions of the Reserve—the first in 1886, and the second in 1901—but ultimately, the remaining land near Snauq was purchased by the provincial government. And neither they, nor the city, was interested in playing landlord.
In May of 1901, the city requested “the removal of the Indians from the reservation on the south side of the mouth of False Creek, just around from Greer’s Beach,” reported the Vancouver World. “Mayor Townley has communicated with Frank Devlin, Indian Agent, in regard to the matter, pointing out that the place was no use to the Indians themselves, that it had become nothing more than a place of carousal, and other than being a source of menace to the morals and health of the City and the Indians, was a distinct source of trouble to the nearby municipalities.”
The residents of Snauq weren’t ultimately displaced from their land until 1913, when the BC government paid out $225,000 to 20 members of the community ($11,000 each) for property worth an estimated $7-million. The men who closed the deal, Hamilton Reid and H.O. Alexander, were paid a total of $80,000 for their services. The city and the CPR had their beach. But despite the removal of its most famous (white) resident, it remained known as Greer’s Beach for 10 years after his departure—until the railway asked for the help of Vancouver pioneer, and government employee/railroad insider Jonathan Miller to help in removing all trace of its former adversary.
“Kitsilano is the new and official title for the locality hitherto known by the old-time name of Greer’s Beach,” wrote the Province, in July of 1901. “Kitsilano was a famous Indian chief 30 years ago, who was the only man who could hold down the Euclataws and other warlike tribes of the north […] He was chief over all the small chiefs between here and Texada, and had command of the entire Squamish Indians in their fights. The word Kitsilano itself means grand, magnificent and great.”
In fact, the word “Kitsilano” didn’t mean anything. Miller had—accidentally or otherwise—anglicized the name of the Khatsahlano family. The same Khatsalano family that the railroad had now twice displaced.
“I think Sam Greer had what we call a ‘raw’ deal,” said H.P. McCraney, in an interview with J.S. Matthews. “He was the only man in Canada who ‘held up’ the CPR, but they were too strong for him. Alex Henderson told me that he was at the trial, and that Judge Begbie bulldozed the jury into finding Sam guilty, and gave him eighteen months in gaol. Henderson said he never saw a worse case of a judge bulldozing a jury.”
Learn more about local history in our Hidden Vancouver series.
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Burglaries sadden volunteer
A long-serving Riverton Fire Brigade volunteer has been sorely repaid, with his home broken into twice in the past month, both times while he was at Fire Service events.
Terry Millar said his house was first broken into on the night of August 6, when a bottle of whisky was taken.
The second time, on August 22, items including more alcohol, keys, a wallet - with "quite a few bob in it" - and his driver's licence and credit cards, along with his Fire Service pager, were stolen.
Mr Millar, who also served in the navy for six years in his younger days, had been a member of the Riverton Fire Brigade for 17 years.
Both times that his house was burgled, Mr Millar had been at the fire brigade, training and at a meeting.
"I think, you know, helping the community for zero for all these years, and this bugger comes along and rips off, it's not right," he said.
He believed the same person was responsible for both thefts.
When asked what he thought of the culprit, Mr Millar said his response might contain some strong language.
"You wouldn't be able to print it."
The person who broke into his home had come in through the back door, he said.
Constable Kelvin Templeton said anybody with information about the thefts should contact the Riverton police or the anonymous Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555111.
- The Southland Times
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Last Friday’s Daily Texan’s article, “Pinch at the Pump,” made some interesting points about gasoline price increases. Many students complain that the price of fueling their vehicles has doubled and that, in turn, has affected their budget for other necessities. Amanda Sims even called the price increases as “ridiculous.” Tim Taylor, a petroleum engineering senior lecturer, explained that increased consumption (demand) results in higher prices, and that the “only way to reduce the price of gas is to lower our consumption.” According the article supply is “struggling to keep up.” It does not distinguish between crude oil and refined oil in this statement, which is significant since OPEC says that there is no shortage of crude oil (see my post from last week). The article points out that although the oil has increased by 55%, gasoline has increased only by 20% from a year ago. Taylor claims that gasoline prices will continue to increase until they reach the 55% increase as well.
Some other interesting facts from the article:
“U.S. Americans make up 4.5% of the world’s population, but consume 25% of the world’s energy.”
“The majority, 68% of the high price of gasoline originates from the rising cost of crude oil.”
So, if “Americans have not significantly reduced their gasoline consumption,” I think that prices are not high enough yet. The ~$110/barrel should and will continue to grow. I don’t think that Americans should be shocked by $4/gallon gasoline, and I think that they should adjust their lifestyle and budgets for $6-8/gallon gasoline. Contrary to Amanda’s comment, the increase is not “ridiculous,” but necessary to implement change in the irresponsible US lifestyle.
Bingham, Amy. “Pinch at the Pump.” The Daily Texan. April 11, 2008.
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Opera Overhauls Mini Browser for iOS
Opera Software today released a brand new version of Opera Mini for the iPhone. The light-weight browser has been redesigned from the ground up and now more closely matches the native user interface of iOS 7. It includes several themes so users can pick the appearance that suits them best. The browser offers three distinct modes for surfing the web. Opera Mini Mode uses server-side compression to crush web sites down by 90% in order to reduce mobile data usage. Opera Turbo Mode uses less compression and offers a more desktop-like browsing experience. Data Savings Off discards the use of compression for full web site compatibility. Opera Mini now has a combined search and address bar, adds a QR reader, makes editing URLs easier with a slide bar, and lets users select their favorite search tool, such as IMDB, Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia. Opera Mini 8 is available from the iTunes App Store today. It is free.
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The American Pain Society (APS) drew more than 1,000 attendees to the Hawai`i Convention Center from May 16-19, 2012, for its 31st annual scientific meeting. It is the first time the APS has held its annual meeting at the Hawai`i Convention Center, attracting participants from around the world, including Japan, Australia, Canada, and Europe.
The meeting offered an opportunity for pain management clinicians and researchers, including physicians, nurses, psychologists, basic scientists, pharmacists, and policy analysts, to learn more about the diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute pain, chronic cancer and non-cancer pain, and recurrent pain. More than 40 in-depth workshops and plenary session talks were offered.
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As I finished yesterday’s post, L’Opéra Cake Gâteau, I realized I might have given the wrong impression. Opera cakes have a few steps and generally is best to give yourself two days from start to finish, but the cake is exhilarating to create. Besides feeling inspired; the look on friends, family, or client’s faces when they see the finished product is priceless.
Without further ado I will explain the Strawberry Crème Barvaroise, the assembly, and the White Chocolate Glaze.
Gâteau Opéra à la Fraise à la Crème Bavaroise:
Fraises à la Crème Bavaroise:
- 259 grams whole milk
- 7 grams gelatin
- 3 egg yolks
- 129 grams/ 5/8-cup cream
- 129 grams/ 5/8 crème fraiche
- 50 grams / 1/4-cupsugar
- 50 grams/ 1/4-cup sugar
- vanilla bean, cut in half lengthwise
- vanilla extract
- 4-drop strawberry essence
Prepare your mise en place and soften the gelatine sheets in ice cold water.
Simultaneously heat in a sauce pan whole milk, sugar and vanilla bean to a gentle boil; while whisking egg yolks and sugar, until the mixture is pale yellow and a ribbon forms when the whisk is lifted.
Pour 1/2 the milk mixture slowly and in a steady stream, while continually mixing egg yolk mixture. Whisk, without beating to minimize foam.
Add the egg yolk crème back into the second 1/2 of the milk mixture in the saucepan and stir continuously the side and bottom of the pan until the mixture is thick. The custard should coat the back of a wooden spoon and when drawn with your finger should leave a separated even line. Turn off the heat, wring the excess water from the gelatin sheets, add the gelatin and stir till the gelatin has dissolved.
Pour the custard into a large bowl and allow the custard to come to room temperature. To speed the cooling processes up place the bowl over a larger bowl of ice water.
In a cold bowl of your standing mixer, with the whisk attachment add the crème frâiche and cream. Whisk to medium peaks, add 4 drops of strawberry essence, and whisk for about 30 seconds more. Fold the bavaroise into the whipped crème/cream.
◆ 100 grams sugar
- 118 grams water
- 62 grams/1/3-cup fragolli (strawberry liqueur)
In a sauce pan add water and sugar on low heat to dissolve the sugar, increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil. Pour the the simple syrup into a measuring jug, allow the syrup to cool and add the the strawberry liqueur. Set aside.
Using a sharp serrated knife cut the cakes crosswise into four equal pieces.
Brush the top of the first layer (of the 4 cut pieces of joconde) with the Strawberry syrup.
Layer with the bavaroise, spread evenly with an offset spatula.
Line the second cut cake (jocunde) evenly onto of the bavaroise layer.
Brush once again with the Strawberry syrup.
Continue layering with cake, syrup,and bavaroise till you have four layers and cover with the Ivory Chocolate Glaze.
White Chocolate Glaze:
- 220 grams/8 ounces Valrhona white chocolate, coarsely chopped
- 118 grams/ ½ -cup heavy cream
- 15 gram/ 1-Tablespoon glucose
Prepare your mise en place
Melt the glucose with the heavy cream to a gentle boil.
Pour over finely chopped white chocolate, and wait about 3 minutes. Whisk gently until smooth.
Let cool for 1 or 2 minutes and then pour over the chilled cake. Using a long metal cake spatula, smooth out into an even layer.
Place the cake into the refrigerator to set the white chocolate.
Cut the cake directly in half (measure to be precise).
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Chopped writing chocolate, bittersweet
paper pastry cone, with a small whole
Prepare your mise en place.
Write or decorate the top of each Opéra Cake.
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Health care excellence. The Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute are collaborating with Nationwide Children's Hospital on the region's first proton therapy treatment facility. Proton therapy is an advanced type of radiation treatment that uses protons instead of X-rays to kill cancer cells. A machine delivers a high-energy proton beam painlessly through the skin from outside the body.
Cycle of success. Pelotonia raised a record $27,400,779 this year, bringing its 10-year total to more than $184 million to fund innovative cancer research at Ohio State's Comprehensive Cancer Center — James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. The 2018 event featured 8,470 riders and 3,056 volunteers from more than 40 states and 13 countries. It is all part of a focus on driving breakthrough health care solutions to improve people's lives. Registration for 2019 opens in February.
International honor. Laila Ujayli, a 2018 alumna, has been named the university's seventh Rhodes Scholar. Thirty-two scholarships are awarded annually to outstanding seniors and recent graduates across the United States. Ujayli was selected for her commitment to advocating for policies benefitting immigrants and refugees, her drive to encourage diplomatic interventions and her use of film and literature to increase mutual understanding between the Western and Arab worlds.
Renowned leadership. The Wexner Center for the Arts has appointed its next director. Johanna Burton has served as Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum in New York and will succeed Sherri Geldin, who has served as director for 25 years. "Johanna is the perfect leader — intelligent, inquisitive, collaborative and ambitious. We couldn't be more thrilled that she will guide the arts center into the future, while building on the superb work of Sherri Geldin and the talented staff," said Abigail Wexner, center trustee and co-chair of the selection committee.
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About George Lewis
There are 2 different jazz musicians named George Lewis's listed here, bios of both follow: 1. A New Orleans based traditional jazz clarinetist (born 1900 - died 1968), a contemporary of Bunk Johnson and Kid Ory, the streaming audio on Last.fm is all by George Lewis 1. 2. A modern computer-interfacing trombonist and composer born 1952 in Chicago who has played with numerous current artists including on Laurie Anderson's album Big Science. Bios Read more about George Lewis on Last.fm.
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On January 26th, 2004 Dr. Shimon Samuels, of the European Office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Paris sent an open letter to Mary McAleese, President of the Republic of Ireland, requesting that she retract the "Irish Museum of the Year Award" which had recently been given to the Hunt Museum in Limerick. In the letter, which was also made public in a press release, Dr. Samuels alleged that Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt, both deceased, whose collections form the core of the museum, had been suspected of being German spies in 1940, that they had had "close personal ties with the head of the Irish Nazi Party (NSDP-AO)" and that they had done business with "notorious dealers in art looted by the Nazis," the implication being that objects in the Hunt Museum might have been confiscated from Holocaust victims. Dr. Samuels asked that "the entire holdings of the Museum as also all items sold by the Hunts to other collections" be placed on the Internet so that claims could be made, and that the Irish government "enunciate a new transparency in regard to its own wartime neutrality by sponsoring a full and independent investigation into the role of John and Gertrude Hunt.
On February 20th, Virginia Teehan, director of the museum, declared that the Museum had begun a process of investigation based on "best international museum practice as outlined in various international declarations, including the UNESCO-endorsed International Council of Museums code of ethics".
An expert panel or 'Review Group' was appointed to investigate the allegations. This panel comprised Mr Justice Donal Barrington, former High Court and Supreme Court judge, Ms Anne Webber, Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, and Mr Hugh Tait, former Deputy Keeper, Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum. (See Museum press release of 20 February 2004 here.
The Review Group met several times to consider the issues and draft terms of reference. It was to be funded by the Museum itself, but was strongly of the view that in carrying out the necessary investigations, the Group must be independently funded. Unless that were the case, its credibility would be at issue. It therefore submitted its resignation.
A new Evaluation Group was eventually formed, this time funded by the Irish government and administered by the Royal Irish Academy. The new panel did not have representatives of either the Hunt Museum or the Wiesenthal Center. The Group began work in May 2005.
In its Terms of Reference, the Evaluation Group was required to oversee and advise on the preparation and publication on the internet of a website which would include images and all known provenance information and documentation related to the objects in the Hunt Museum. Priority was to be given to objects thought to have been acquired between 1933 and 1945. In addition, any Hunt family files relating to the collection were to be examined by an independent expert. A meeting was to be arranged with representatives of the Wiesenthal Center to examine the documentation they had to support their allegations, which also was to be evaluated by an independent expert. Findings were to be shared with other museums that had objects formerly belonging to the Hunts, and the Museum was to place on the web "all documents which have a material bearing on the matters enquired into."
An Interim Report by the Evaluation Group was published in February, 2006. The Report noted that the website project had been completed by late October 2005 and that specialized provenance research had begun.
The [Final Report was] made public at a seminar for the Irish museum community on June 19, 2006 in Dublin. During the course of the seminar the existence of [a] Military Archive file [on John and Gertrude Hunt] was made known to the public, not by one of the presenters, but by a member of the audience: Mr. Eamonn Kelly. This dramatic revelation renewed media interest in the case and most of the information in the file was soon published. On June 21, the Wiesenthal Centre, in a press release, also finally disclosed that the Military Archive file had been the principal source of its allegations and Dr. Samuels gave his version of its contents. As he had previously stated he would do, he now condemned the Evaluation Group for not including the file in its Report.
The Wiesenthal Centre press release also contained a list of other complaints and accusations: Samuels pointed out that private files held by the Hunt Family, which the family had declared not to be relevant to the collection, should be examined. He suggested that dealer’s records should have been searched but did not specify which dealers. He cast doubt upon the objectivity of [the] research. He also alleged that individuals associated with the Hunt Museum had seen the file but not revealed its contents to the Evaluation Group. Dr. Samuels therefore demanded that a public statement be made “as to whether any agents, representatives or persons acting on behalf of the Hunt family or Hunt Museum had ever had access to the Irish military archives” and declared that the Evaluation group had not acted independently or with transparency. The press release was followed by a letter from Dr. Samuels to the Secretary of the Evaluation Group in which he stated that the Group had never addressed the charges of the Irish researchers involved in the debate or called upon their expertise, and demanded that the investigation process be reopened. Dr Samuels was subsequently offered the opportunity of meeting with the Evaluation Group but failed to respond.
In a further reponse to this letter, Dr Michael Ryan, Secretary of the Evaluation Group, in October, 2006, requested that [Dr Lynn Nicholas] analyze the methodology of the Group, respond to the criticisms of the Wiesenthal Centre, and suggest further action.
Lynn Nicholas's report was made public in September 2007 and is available here. It provides an authoritative account of the history and context of the allegations, the investigation carried out into them, and includes extensive recommendations for further action and investigation.
Dr Nicholas concludes that "an examination of the Hunt Museum Collection was certainly justified both by its lack of provenance records and by the discovery of the Hunt’s relationship with a dealer who is known to have trafficked in confiscated art". However, "analysis of the methodologies of both the Wiesenthal Centre and the Evaluation Group reveals that both made unwise decisions in setting guidelines and in regard to the inclusion in their statements and reports of relevant documentation.....The lack of communication among various elements of the Irish arts establishment, the Hunt Family, and the Wiesenthal Center, in the end, only delayed the conclusion that the presently available information and research provides no proof whatsoever that the Hunts were Nazis, that they were involved in any kind of espionage, or that they were traffickers in looted art".
Extracts from 'Report on the Final Report to the Royal Irish Academy by the Hunt Museum Evaluation Group, June 2006' by Lynn Nicholas 8 August 2007 published by the Royal Irish Academy
Hunt Museum at https://www.lootedart.com/NEA98U568751
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This principal dictates that what your customer gets out of their relationship with you is immediately followed by what your organisation gets from the relationship with your customer—typically profit.
Social Media & Customer Engagement: One of the biggest mistakes that companies make in the digital era is ignoring social media. Social media is a way of engaging your customers, communicating with them and is a valuable source of data. A good approach to customer service must undoubtedly include a social media marketing strategy. With social media, you have a tangible way to increase your bottom line by engaging your current audience and broadening your company’s horizons in order to improve your reach.
Customer Service for a Happy Customer in the Digital Age: While technology and the digital age has drastically changed how organisations do business, one thing remains the same and that the importance of real-life customer interaction. Social media is an excellent customer service tool and customer relationship management and measurement are excellent indicators of your business’ performance, however, few things compare to taking the time to meet with your customers face-to-face, or taking the time out to connect with them on the phone.
Face-to-face, personal interaction with your customers can be time consuming, especially when you consider all of the other tasks that need to be done in order to successfully manage a business. Fortunately, at APT, we are able to assist you with the backend processes of your business to help you free up time for what really matter – your customers.
How APT Business Services Can Help You Put the Customer First: At APT Business Services, we offer a number of solutions for managing the backend of your business so that you can focus your time and attention on putting your best foot forward in your industry and business. We take care of your bookkeeping, payroll, taxation compliance, management reporting and so much more. With all of the time that we save you, your organisation can focus on what is most important in this digital age and that is your customers.
We specialise in helping small to medium businesses and our goal is to be recognised as a professional Outsourcing company who assists their clients in achieving their goals by providing bespoke solutions to their needs. We’d love to put our skills and level of professionalism to work for you so that you can focus on reaching your own goals. To find out more about how we can help you, contact us via e-mail at email@example.com or call our Australian offices at 07 3911 1095.
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